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Scripps's murrelet chicks leave the nest for the ocean at just two days old. Scripps's murrelet feeds at sea (but on average not as far from land as Guadalupe murrelet), often in association with large pelagic predatory fish like tuna, on larval fish like anchovies, sardines and Sebastes rockfish. Like all auks it is a wing-propelled diver ...
Guadalupe murrelet: the California Current system in the Pacific Ocean. Synthliboramphus scrippsi: Scripps's murrelet: California Current system in the Pacific Ocean Synthliboramphus craveri: Craveri's murrelet: the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of California off the Baja peninsula of Mexico Synthliboramphus antiquus: Ancient murrelet
English: Santa Barbara Island hosts the largest breeding population of Xantus' murrelets in the United States. The tiny chicks leave their steep hillside nests when only 48 hours old and tumble down into the crashing surf.
It is also home to the largest breeding colony for Scripps's murrelet, a threatened seabird species. Scripps's murrelet is listed as vulnerable because so much of its breeding takes place on such a small and isolated island. Fourteen species of birds nest annually on the island. These include the horned lark, orange-crowned warbler, and house ...
Xantus's murrelet, native to the California Current system, has been split into two species: Scripps's murrelet , Synthliboramphus scrippsi Guadalupe murrelet , Synthliboramphus hypoleucus
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