Japanese cormorant
The Japanese cormorant (Phalacrocorax capillatus), also known as Temminck's cormorant, is a cormorant native to the east Palearctic. It lives from Taiwan, north through Korea and Japan, to the Russian Far East.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Suliformes |
| Family: | Phalacrocoracidae |
| Genus: | Phalacrocorax |
| Species: | P. capillatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Phalacrocorax capillatus | |
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The Japanese cormorant has a black body with a white throat and cheeks and a partially yellow bill.
It is one of the species of cormorant that has been domesticated by fishermen in a tradition known in Japan as ukai (鵜飼) (literally meaning 'raising a cormorant'). It is called umiu (ウミウ sea cormorant) in Japanese. The Nagara River's well-known fishing masters work with this particular species to catch ayu.[2]
Eggs, Collection Museum Wiesbaden
Footnotes
- BirdLife International (2012). "Phalacrocorax capillatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- Cormorant Fishing "UKAI". Version of May, 2001. Retrieved 2008-JAN-30.
References
- "Phalacrocorax capillatus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 24 January 2006.
External links
- Japanese cormorant at Avibase
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