Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Charadriiformes > Alcidae > Synthliboramphus > Synthliboramphus wumizusumeSynthliboramphus wumizusume (Japanese Murrelet)Synonyms: Uria wumizusume The Japanese murrelet or crested murrelet (Synthliboramphus wumizusume) is a small bird that inhabits rocky islets and reefs in the warm waters of Japan, Russia and South Korea. It has black and bluish grey upper body and white underparts plumage. Breeding sites are crevices, burrows and hollows in rocks, the gaps in piles of stones, and among grasses on uninhabited islands. The northern limit of the breeding sites are the Nanatsujima Islands of Japan, while the most important breeding sites are Biro Island and the Izu Islands. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 6.7838 EDGE Score: 3.43834 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 183 grams |  | | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Piscivore | | Diet - Fish [2] | 30 % | | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 70 % | | Forages - Underwater [2] | 100 % | | | Clutch Size [1] | 2 | | Clutches / Year [3] | 1 | | Incubation [3] | 35 days | | Maximum Longevity [3] | 5 years | | Migration [4] | Intracontinental |
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Kurilsky State Nature Reserve |
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161520 |
Sakhalin, Russia |
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Lazovsky Zapovednik |
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299030 |
Primorsky Krai, Russia |
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Birojima islet |
Japan |
A1, A4ii |
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Chilbal-do island |
South Korea |
A1, A4ii |
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Danjo islands |
Japan |
A1, A2, A4ii, A4iii |
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Eboshijima islet |
Japan |
A1, A4ii |
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Hachijojima island |
Japan |
A1, A2, A4ii |
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Kanmurijima and Kutsujima islets |
Japan |
A1, A4ii, A4iii |
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Kii Nagashima islets |
Japan |
A1, A2 |
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Kozushima island |
Japan |
A1, A2, A4ii |
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Kukul-do island |
South Korea |
A1, A4ii |
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Mikurajima island |
Japan |
A1, A2, A4ii |
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Miyakejima island |
Japan |
A1, A2, A4ii |
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Nanatsujima islets |
Japan |
A1 |
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Niijima and Shikinejima Islands |
Japan |
A1, A2, A4ii |
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Okinoshima islets |
Japan |
A1, A2, A4ii |
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Seinan islands |
Japan |
A1, A2 |
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Torishima island |
Japan |
A1, A4ii |
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Tsukuejima islets |
Japan |
A1 |
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Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
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Japan |
Japan |
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 Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Comparative Reproductive Ecology of the Auks (Family Alcidae) with Emphasis on the Marbled Murrelet, Toni L. De Santo, S. Kim Nelson, USDA Forest Service Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-152. 1995. pp. 33-47 ♦ 2Hamish 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 ♦ 3Nathan 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 ♦ 4Myers, 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♦ 5Jorrit 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. |
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
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