{"id":326,"date":"2009-03-13T17:34:32","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T08:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/?p=326"},"modified":"2015-10-27T06:41:42","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T21:41:42","slug":"shiga-born-cormorants-found-in-kumamoto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/shiga-born-cormorants-found-in-kumamoto\/","title":{"rendered":"Shiga-born cormorants found in Kumamoto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s largest kawau cormorant colony is found in Lake Biwa. These birds are flying off from Shiga and spreading over a wide area.<\/p>\n<p>Kawau cormorants from <a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/txt\/Lake_Biwa\">Lake Biwa<\/a> have been found in Kumamoto in Kyushu, over 580 km away, the furthest distance away confirmed so far. Previously, the furthest away where they were found was in Chiba.<\/p>\n<p>Seven years ago, foot rings were attached to cormorants born on <a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/pix\/thumbnails.php?album=18\">Chikubushima<\/a> island. A bird wearing such a ring was found in Sagara village in Kumamoto Pref. in Sept. 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that Shiga is too poor to effectively eliminate these fish-depleting birds, so they plan to seek assistance from the national government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s largest kawau cormorant colony is found in Lake Biwa. These birds are flying off from Shiga and spreading over a wide area. Kawau cormorants from Lake Biwa have been found in Kumamoto in Kyushu, over 580 km away, the&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biwako","category-nagahama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3734,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions\/3734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}