Japanese cormorant
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P. capillatus
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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.[2]
File:Phalacrocorax capillatus MWNH 0529.JPG
Eggs, Collection Museum Wiesbaden
Footnotes
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- ↑ Cormorant Fishing "UKAI". Version of May, 2001. Retrieved 2008-JAN-30.
References
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External links
- Japanese cormorant at Avibase
