Synthliboramphus antiquus: ancient murrelet–The Race Rocks Taxonomy

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Ancient Murrelet  Synthliboramphus antiquus photo by Ryan Murphy

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Ancient murrelets with a loon in the background: Photo by Raisa Mirza, November 2010

RM_ancient_murreletScientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Alcidae
Genus: Synthliboramphus
Species: S. antiquus

Synthliboramphus antiquus  (Gmelin, 1789)

These murrelets are seen only occasionally in the waters off Race Rocks. They are easy to confuse with the rarer Marbled Murrelet which also shows up in the fall.

Other entries on Murrelets at Race Rocks

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