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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
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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