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Ancient Murrelet Synthliboramphus antiquus   [JF Gmelin, 1789]
Other Names Records Books & Links
Order: Charadriiformes Family: Alcidae
BTO Codes: , EURING No: 6450
Number in Britain: Fewer than 20 records
Conservation Status:
UK: Unlisted
European: Not evaluated
Global: Least Concern
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Status in UK: (A)  Accidental
Subspecies: recorded in Britain (of 2 subsp. in the world)
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Length: 26 cm Wingspan: 40 cm Weight: M/F: 200 g    
Scientific name from: Gr.: sunthlibo=to compress + ramphos=bill and L.: antiquus=ancient
World Distribution: BREEDS: e Asia, nw North America, WINTERS: n Pacific
Habitat: Rocky coasts, otherwise pelagic
Diet: Prob. Mostly young sandeels, planktonic crustaceans
TitBit: This small seabird, related to the Puffin, normally lives on the Pacific coast of Canada, where it nests in trees, until one turned up unexpectedly in the Bristol Channel off Lundy  
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Records and Distribution
First Record: Lundy, 1990 (Waldon, J. 1994. British Birds 87:307-310)
Total Number of Records (1958-2004): 1 Summary of Records by Year
Most Likely to Occur in: Too few records
Most Recent County Records:
   Scotland: No Records
   North-east England: No Records
   North-west England: No Records
   English Midlands: No Records
   Eastern England: No Records
   South-east England: No Records
   South-west England: Devon (1990),
   Wales: No Records
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Other Names
Gaelic: Welsh:
Danish: Hvidbrynet dværgalk Dutch: Zilveralk
Finnish: Mustakurkkumurri French: Guillemot à cou blanc
German: Silberalk Hungarian:
Icelandic: Irish:
Italian: Uria minore Norwegian: Nordstarik
Polish: Morzyk sedziwy Portuguese:
Spanish: Araocillo antiguo Swedish: Kragalka
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For More Information...
Books and Monographs:
   Gaston, A.J. 1992 The ancient murrelet, a natural history of the Queen Charlotte Islands Poyser, London [598.618 GAS]
See Also:
All About Birds (Cornell Lab of Ornithology)
Gough, G.A. et al. (1998) Patuxent Bird Identification Infocenter
Wikipedia entry
Recent sightings and information from BirdGuides.com
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These data should be cited as:
Robinson, R.A. (2005) BirdFacts: profiles of birds occurring in Britain & Ireland (v1.21, Jun 2008). BTO Research Report 407, BTO, Thetford (http://www.bto.org/birdfacts)

 

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