Japanese Cormorant
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The Japanese Cormorant (Phalacrocorax capillatus), also known as Temminck's Cormorant, is a cormorant native to East Asia. It lives from Taiwan north through Korea and Japan to the Russian Far East.
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). 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.[1]
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Cormorant Fishing "UKAI". Version of May, 2001. Retrieved 2008-JAN-30.
[edit] References
- Phalacrocorax capillatus (TSN 174738). Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved on 24 January 2006.
- BirdLife International (2004). Phalacrocorax capillatus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 12 May 2006. Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
[edit] External links
- Japanese Cormorant at Avibase
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