Japanese cormorant (English name: Phalacrocorax capillatus; Japanese cormorant)

Japanese: ウミウ(英語表記)Phalacrocorax capillatus; Japanese cormorant
Japanese cormorant (English name: Phalacrocorax capillatus; Japanese cormorant)
Order: Gannetidae, family: Cormorant. Total length: 84-92 cm. Overall blackish, with a bluish-green back. Like the great cormorant, during breeding season, many white reproductive feathers (→ plumage) appear from the head to the neck, and large white spots appear on the thighs. They breed in the Ussuri region, Sakhalin Island, the southern Kuril Islands, eastern China, the coast of the Korean Peninsula, and Japan. In Japan, they breed in groups mainly in parts of northern Kyushu and north, and on the coasts and islands of Hokkaido. In winter, they migrate south widely to the coastal waters of Honshu, and have been recorded in the Ryukyu Islands and the Ogasawara Islands. They sometimes create collective resting areas on coastal cliffs. They rarely enter inland waters, and mainly dive in coastal waters to prey on fish. The cormorants used in cormorant fishing in Japan are captured and tamed versions of this species.

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Japanese:
カツオドリ目ウ科。全長 84~92cm。全体に黒っぽく,背は青緑色を帯びている。カワウと同様,繁殖期には頭部から頸部にかけて白色の生殖羽(→羽衣)が多数生じ,腿部に大きな白斑が現れる。ウスリー地方,サハリン島,千島列島南部,中国東部,朝鮮半島の沿岸,日本に繁殖分布する。日本ではおもに九州地方北部以北の一部と北海道の沿岸および島で集団繁殖している。冬季は本州の沿岸海域に広く南下し,南西諸島や小笠原諸島にも記録がある。海岸の崖地に集団休息地をつくることがある。内陸の水域に入ることは少なく,おもに沿岸海域で潜水して魚類を捕食する。日本で鵜飼いに使われるウは,本種を捕獲して飼い慣らしたものである。

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