- coasts; and the puffins, auklets, and some
murrelets nest in burrows. All
species except the
Brachyramphus murrelets are colonial. Traditionally, the auks...
- All
lakes used by
marbled murrelets occur within potential nesting habitat. From
southeast Alaska southward,
marbled murrelets use
mature or old-growth...
- guillemot.
Ancient murrelets are
called "ancient"
because they have grey on the back like a shawl, as worn by the elderly. The
ancient murrelet was formally...
- "short", and rhamphos, "bill". In
English the
species are
named as "
murrelets"; this is a
diminutive of "murre", a word of
uncertain origins, but which...
- The ****anese
murrelet or
crested murrelet (Synthliboramphus wumizusume) is a
small seabird in the auk
family that
occurs along the
remote rocky coasts...
-
incubated for
about a month. Like
other synthliboramphine murrelets (e.g. the
ancient murrelet) the
chicks are
highly precocial,
leaving the nest within...
-
inland in old
growth forests. The long-billed
murrelet, like its
cousins the
marbled and Kittlitz's
murrelets, is
thought to have
experienced a
decline in...
-
murrelet,
native to the
California Current system, has been
split into two species: Scripps's
murrelet,
Synthliboramphus scrippsi Guadalupe murrelet,...
- are
incubated for
about a month. Like
other murrelets of the
genus Synthliboramphus (like the
ancient murrelet) the
chicks are
highly precocial, leaving...
- Jr. & S.I. Bond (1975). "Morphological
variation and
species limits in
murrelets of the
genus Endomychura".
Transactions of the San
Diego Society of Natural...
