Japanese cormorant
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Suliformes
Family: Phalacrocoracidae
Genus: Phalacrocorax
Species:
P. capillatus
Binomial name
Phalacrocorax capillatus
(Temminck & Schlegel, 1850)
Blue: Extant (non-breeding), Yellow: Extant (breeding)

The Japanese cormorant (Phalacrocorax capillatus), also known as Temminck's cormorant, is a cormorant native to the east Palearctic. The species occur from Taiwan, northwards through Korea and Japan, to the Russian Far East. In Japan, they breed in a few areas on Honshu (including Sado) and Hokkaido. In the Asian continent, they breed in northern China, the Korean Peninsula and part of Russia (around Vladivostok).

It is migratory, and has been observed to dive to significant depths for food.[2]

It 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.[3]

Eggs, Collection Museum Wiesbaden

Footnotes

  1. ↑ BirdLife International (2018). "Phalacrocorax capillatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T22696799A132594150. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22696799A132594150.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ↑ KURIHARA, Takumi; HIRATA, Akihiro; YAMAGUCHI, Tsuyoshi; OKADA, Harue; KAMEDA, Miho; SAKAI, Hiroki; HARIDY, Mohie; YANAI, Tokuma (2020). "Avipoxvirus infection in two captive Japanese cormorants (<i>Phalacrocorax capillatus</i>)". Journal of Veterinary Medical Science. 82 (6): 817–822. doi:10.1292/jvms.19-0406. ISSN 0916-7250. PMC 7324821.
  3. ↑ Cormorant Fishing "UKAI" Archived 2014-01-19 at the Wayback Machine. Version of May, 2001. Retrieved 2008-JAN-30.

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