Red-faced Cormorant

Urile urile (Gmelin, JF, 1789)

Red-faced Cormorant, Urile urile, is a bird of the cormorant family that breeds in the coastal subarctic North Pacific. Its breeding range runs from Kamchatka and the northern and central Kuril and Commander Islands in Russia to the southern Kuril Islands and eastern Hokkaido in Japan, and also includes the Aleutian and Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea and the southern Alaska Islands in the eastern North Pacific. It is best known for the bare skin around the face, which becomes bright orange-red in breeding condition and sets it apart from the similar pelagic cormorant.

Order

Suliformes

Family

Phalacrocoracidae — Cormorants, Shags

Breeding range

Pacific Ocean: c coastal subarctic North Pacific: Kamchatka, n, c Kuril and Commander is. (se Russia) to s Kuril Is. and e Hokkaido (n Japan; w North Pacific); Aleutian and Pribilof is. (Bering Sea) and s Alaska is. (e North Pacific)