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Scripps's Murrelet
Synthliboramphus scrippsi (Green & Arnold, 1939)
Alcidae — Auks
Scripps's Murrelet, Synthliboramphus scrippsi, is an auk of the North Pacific coast in North America and Middle America, breeding on the Channel Islands of southern California and on islands off north-western and north-central Baja California to San Benito in north-west Mexico. Outside the breeding season it ranges north to coastal Washington in the eastern North Pacific Ocean. It is a small seabird. It was once treated together with the Guadalupe Murrelet under the name Xantus's Murrelet, but it is now recognised as separate.
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Alcidae — Auks
- Breeding range
- North America, Middle America: ec North Pacific coast: Channel Is. (s California) and islands off nw, nc Baja California to San Benito (nw Mexico)
- Nonbreeding range
- n to coastal Washington (ec North Pacific Ocean)
