Planet of Birds

Ancient Murrelet (Synthliboramphus antiquus) Science Article 1 abstract The Ancient Murrelet Synthliboramphus antiquus is a smallmember of the Alcidae widely distributed in the North Pacifictemperate and subarctic zones during the breeding season. Thespecies is completely nocturnal when coming and going from thecolony and mainly nests in burrows or in cavities under tree roots AKIKO SHOJI […]

Ancient Murrelet (Synthliboramphus antiquus) Science Article 2 abstract Ancient Murrelets Synthliboramphus antiquus were nearly extirpated, and five other burrow-nesting species were extirpated from LangaraIsland, British Columbia, following introduction of first Black Rats Rattus rattus and later Norway Rats R. norvegicus. Rats were eradicatedin 1995. To document the apparent response of Ancient Murrelets to introduced rats […]

Ancient Murrelet (Synthliboramphus antiquus) Science Article 3 abstract The New Carissa oil spill killed approximately 588 Auklets and Ancient Murrelets in February 1999.Resource equivalency analysis (REA) is used to evaluate the direct loss (birds killed) and indirect loss(two generations of lost reproduction) over time. Kristin E. Skrabis, US Fish & Wildlife Service, 2005 Download article […]

Ancient Murrelet (Synthliboramphus antiquus) Science Article 8 abstract We examined the decline of Ancient Murrelets (Synthliboramphus antiquus), a small, burrou>nestingseabird, at Langara Island. The island’s seabird colony was historically one of the largest colonies of AncientMurrelets in British Columbia–perhaps in the world–with an estimated 200,000 nesting pairs. DOUGLAS F. BERTRAM, Conservation Biology, Pages 865-872 Volume […]

Ancient Murrelet (Synthliboramphus antiquus) Science Article 4 abstract I compared the timing of colony departure and body mass of 53 Ancient Murrelet Synthliboramphus antiquus chicks that were retrapped as adults in Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, with those of 3992 chicks not retrapped. ANTHONY J. GASTON, IBIS 739: 673-678, 1997 Download article download full text (pdf)

Ancient Murrelet (Synthliboramphus antiquus) Science Article 6 abstract We investigated the vocalizations of the Ancient Mm-relet (Synthliboramphus antiquus), a seabird of the North Pacific, to determine how the size and structure of their vocal repertoire relates to their nocturnal activity at breeding colonies IAN L. JONES et al, The Condor 9 1:699-110, 1989 Download article […]

Ancient Murrelet (Synthliboramphus antiquus) Science Article 7 abstract The behavior of young seabirds at departure from the colony is critical for their survival and for the reproductive success of their parents IAN L. JONES et al, The Condor 89:940-943, 1997 Download article download full text (pdf)

Ancient Murrelet (Synthliboramphus antiquus) Science Article 5 abstract Genetic data can help answer questions about the basis of the contemporary population structure and evolutionaryhistory of a species. Ancient Murrelets (Synthliboramphus antiquus) are north-Pacific seabirds that breed in a 9,000km subarctic range from China to British Columbia. R.L. Pearce et al, Laskeek_Bay_Research, 1999 Download article download […]