Ancient Murrelet

Synthliboramphus antiquus

Summary 2

The Ancient Murrelet (Synthliboramphus antiquus) is a bird in the auk family. It breeds from the Yellow Sea (islands off China), through the Russian Pacific coast and the Aleutian Islands to the Haida Gwaii archipelago of British Columbia, where about half of the world population breeds.

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  1. (c) Sean Fitzgerald, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://www.flickr.com/photos/27679816@N07/4130118658
  2. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthliboramphus_antiquus

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iNat Map

Color black, grey, white
1.order Shorebirds
Class birds
Park Chatfield