Japanese cormorant
The Japanese cormorant, also known as Temminck's cormorant, is a cormorant native to the east Palearctic. 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. It is called umiu in Japanese. The Nagara River's well-known fishing masters work with this particular species to catch ayu.
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