Japanese cormorant

The Japanese cormorant (Phalacrocorax capillatus), also known as Temminck's cormorant, is a cormorant native to the east Palearctic.

Japanese cormorant
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
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)

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

Distribution

• China
• Japan
• North Korea
• Russian Far East
• South Korea
• Taiwan