By Yoko Teshima, 23 Jan 2017
The Japanese Murrelet Synthliboramphus
wumizusume is a small seabird with an equally small range to
match; it can be found only in warm current waters close to Japan. The birds’
breeding range is even smaller still, concentrated mainly on the ground of rock
reefs or isolated islands from Kanto region and to the west, where they make
their nests in the crack of rocks. For the chicks, the stay on these
uninhabited islands is a brief one; two days after hatching, the chick abandons
the nest for the sea and is fed by its parents off the coast.
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