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Phalacrocorax capillatus (Japanese Cormorant)

Synonyms: Carbo capillatus; Carbo filamentosus; Phalacrocorax filamentosus

Wikipedia Abstract

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.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
21
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 7.1403
EDGE Score: 2.09683

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  6.279 lbs (2.848 kg)
Birth Weight [2]  54 grams
Female Weight [4]  5.512 lbs (2.50 kg)
Male Weight [4]  6.923 lbs (3.14 kg)
Weight Dimorphism [4]  25.6 %
Diet [3]  Piscivore
Diet - Fish [3]  100 %
Forages - Underwater [3]  100 %
Clutch Size [5]  4
Incubation [5]  34 days
Migration [6]  Intraoceanic
Wing Span [5]  4.986 feet (1.52 m)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Yancheng Nature Reserve V 711488 China    

Important Bird Areas

Name Location  IBA Criteria   Website   Climate   Land Use 
Lower Tumen river Russia (Asian) A1, A4i, A4ii, A4iii
Shiretoko, Mount Syari-dake Japan A1, A3, A4i

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Japan Japan No

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Calonectris leucomelas (Streaked Shearwater)1
Larus crassirostris (Black-tailed Gull)1

Consumers

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
2Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
3Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
4Watanuki Y, Kato A, Naito Y (1996) Diving performance of male and female Japanese Cormorants. Can J Zool 74:1098–1109
5del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
6Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
7Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
8Foraging behavior of a generalist marine top predator, Japanese cormorants (Phalacrocorax filamentosus), in years of demersal versus epipelagic prey, Y. Watanuki, K. Ishikawa, A. Takahashi, A. Kato, Marine Biology (2004) 145: 427–434
9Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0