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 EN    Marbled Murrelet* Id (Atlas):
    Brachyramphus marmoratus

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Marbled Murrelet, Long-billed Murrelet

Family
Alcidae (Auks)

Size
25 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Gmelin, 1789)

Habitat
Forest areas with multiple canopy layers and high mistletoe abundance, sheltered waters, lagoons and sometimes inland lakes.

Range (Guide)
Canada (B) (NB) (P), USA (B).

Vagrant to Mexico.

Population
Estimated population is 480,000 - 760,000 (2011) and decreasing.

Status EN
Forest habitat destruction, overfishing, nest predation by corvids, gill-net fishing and oil spills are the main threats.

For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Food
Sandlance, herring and, in winter, invertebrates.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (22)...)

 
Marbled Murrelet (Brachyramphus marmoratus) [XC878832]
     by Kayla Brown from North Deadwood 17.04, Lane County, Oregon, United States (flight call, wing beats)

 
Marbled Murrelet (Brachyramphus marmoratus) [XC318954]
     by Andrew Spencer from Klamath, Del Norte County, California, United States (call)

Subspecies
Brachyramphus marmoratus (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) has been split into Marbled Murrelet (Brachyramphus marmoratus) and Long-billed Murrelet (Brachyramphus perdix) following AOU (1998).

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

  • perdix (Pallas, 1811)   -  Kamchatka and Sea of Okhotsk south to northern Japan (Hokkaido). Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Long-billed Murrelet (Brachyramphus perdix).
  • marmoratus (Gmelin, 1789)   -  Western Aleutians (Attu I) to Barren Is and south-eastern Alaska, south to central California (Santa Cruz Mts).


Similar Species
Kittlitz's Murrelet (Brachyramphus brevirostris) which is paler, has white outer tail feathers and shorter bill. In winter, has whiter face broken by dark eye and slight eye-stripe, nearly complete breast-band and white tips to secondaries.


References
See References.


Files:
JPG files for Marbled Murrelet (Brachyramphus marmoratus) - 10 files


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