Photo: Lisa Hupp/USFWS. / Public domain / Wikimedia Commons
Prefectural Natural Monument
Birds
Red-faced Cormorant
Phalacrocorax urile
A northern seabird with conspicuous red facial skin, breeding on a few rocky islets in eastern Hokkaido. Yururi and Moyururi islands off Nemuro are protected as a seabird colony. It is very rare in Japan.
- Scientific name
- Phalacrocorax urile
- Group
- Birds
- Prefectures
- Hokkaido
- 日本語
- チシマウガラス
- 简体中文
- 红脸鸬鹚
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The Red-faced Cormorant is designated as a species without a fixed area and lives in places such as Hokkaido.
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