Ancient Murrelet Synthliboramphus antiquus [JF Gmelin, 1789] |
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Order:
Charadriiformes
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Family: Alcidae |
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BTO Codes:
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EURING No: 6450 | |
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Number in Britain:
Fewer than 20 records
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Status in UK:
(A) Accidental
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Subspecies:
recorded in Britain (of 2 subsp. in the world)
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Length:
26 cm
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Wingspan: 40 cm |
Weight:
M/F: 200 g
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Scientific name from:
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Gr.: sunthlibo=to compress + ramphos=bill and L.: antiquus=ancient |
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World Distribution:
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BREEDS: e Asia, nw North America, WINTERS: n Pacific |
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Habitat:
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Rocky coasts, otherwise pelagic |
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Diet:
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Prob. Mostly young sandeels, planktonic crustaceans |
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TitBit:
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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 |
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First Record:
Lundy, 1990
(Waldon, J. 1994. British Birds 87:307-310)
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Total Number of Records (1950-2007):
1
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Summary of Records by Year
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Most Likely to Occur in:
Too few records
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South-west England:
Devon
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Information provided by BirdGuides and BBRC |
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Other Names |
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| Gaelic: | Welsh: |
| Danish: Hvidbrynet dværgalk | Dutch: Zilveralk |
| Finnish: Mustakurkkumurri | French: Guillemot à cou blanc |
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| Italian: Uria minore | Norwegian: Nordstarik |
| Polish: Morzyk sedziwy | Portuguese: |
| Spanish: Araocillo antiguo | Swedish: Kragalka |
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For More Information... |
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Books and Monographs:
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| Gaston, A.J. 1992 The ancient murrelet, a natural history of the Queen Charlotte Islands Poyser, London [598.618 GAS] | |
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Find scientific papers on  Google Scholar
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Wikipedia entry
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BirdLife species page
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Recent sightings and information from BirdGuides
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All About Birds (Cornell Lab of Ornithology)
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Gough, G.A. et al. (1998) Patuxent Bird Identification Infocenter
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