Birds of the World

    CHARADRIIFORMES: Alcidae (Auks)  
Genus: Brachyramphus (3 species)


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Kittlitz's Murrelet (Brachyramphus brevirostris) Near Threatened
Range: PAL, NA: Arctic to subarctic nw to ne North Pacific coasts: patchily from Wrangel I. (n of ne Siberia), Chukotka, ne Kamchatka, n Sea of Okhotsk (e Russia); Bering Sea and Aleutian Is., Gulf of Alaska to se Alaska; nests up to 75 km inland
   



Marbled Murrelet
Marbled Murrelet (Brachyramphus marmoratus) Endangered
Range: NA: coastal strip of temperate c, e North Pacific: Aleutian Is. to c California; nests up to 100 km inland
Quivira Basin, Mission Bay, California,  
   
Photograph by Vic Murayama     Copyright and usage info


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Long-billed Murrelet (Brachyramphus perdix) Near Threatened
Range: PAL: coastal strip of temperate w North Pacific: Kamchatka, Sea of Okhotsk, Sakhalin (e Russia) and n Hokkaido (n Japan); nests up to 30 km inland
 




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