Bird in captivity. The birds are used for traditional 'cormorant fishing'. cf. http://www.visitkansai.com/sightseeing/ukai-cormorant-fishing/ These birds were captured in Hitachi City, Ibaragi Prefecture. I provide this sample recording for comparison purposes because there is no recording of this species in XC and it is very difficult to record the voice in the wild in Kyoto region. Hope we have recordings in the wild in future.

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Bird in captivity. The birds are used for traditional 'cormorant fishing'. cf. http://www.visitkansai.com/sightseeing/ukai-cormorant-fishing/ These birds were captured in Hitachi City, Ibaragi Prefecture. I provide this sample recording for comparison purposes because there is no recording of this species in XC and it is very difficult to record the voice in the wild in Kyoto region. Hope we have recordings in the wild in future.

bird-seen:yes

playback-used:no

Several birds on tetrapods.

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3-4 sec

Sorry for the low-quality, noisy recording. I visited several places in this winter with a hope to record this species in the wild, but it turned out to be a very difficult task (usually too distant, strong wave sound or wind sound). It would be probably difficult to record other than in breeding locations. There were several birds of this species on a rock near the port, and the condition looked like to be feasible. These birds did not issue a voice while I observed. When I prepared to return, there was a voice (at 0.2-0.5s in this recording) and I noticed that one bird disappeared from the rock. The microphone was not pointed to the birds at the time and the voice was only barely recorded. I think, however, the ID of the voice source is okay since there was no confusing species around there and the voice frequency and feature were similar to my recordings of this species in captivity. Only low-frequency nose has been suppressed by frequency filtering and white noise has not been reduced.

bird-seen:yes

playback-used:no