species 521 observations

Red-faced Cormorant

Urile urile

Field notes

The red-faced cormorant (Urile urile), red-faced shag or violet shag, is a bird species of the family Phalacrocoracidae.

Its range spans from the eastern tip of Hokkaidō in Japan, northern korean peninsula, via the Kuril Islands, the southern tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula and the Aleutian Arc to the Alaska Peninsula and Gulf of Alaska.

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Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided