Approximately 14,000 of the east Siberian breeding population of whooper swan migrate to Japan to winter in the northern parts of Honshu and in Hokkaido. Formerly abundant as far south as Tokyo it was killed for its down and quills so extensively last century that numbers were severely reduced. While hunting has since ceased and numbers have increased, it has not yet returned to its more southerly wintering areas.
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Forest and Bird, Issue 268, 1 May 1993, Page 31
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69Approximately 14,000 of the east Siberian breeding population of whooper swan migrate to Japan to winter in the northern parts of Honshu and in Hokkaido. Formerly abundant as far south as Tokyo it was killed for its down and quills so extensively last century that numbers were severely reduced. While hunting has since ceased and numbers have increased, it has not yet returned to its more southerly wintering areas. Forest and Bird, Issue 268, 1 May 1993, Page 31
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