Kittlitz's Murrelet

When to see the Kittlitz's Murrelet

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 5 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is June, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Kittlitz's Murrelet

The map shades 2 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Canada.

About the Kittlitz's Murrelet

Kittlitz's murrelet is a small alcid found in the waters off Alaska and Eastern Siberia. This near threatened species is, like the closely related marbled murrelet, unusual for seabirds in not being colonial, nesting instead in isolated locations on mountain tops, where the nests were known to Native Americans for many years before skeptical ornithologists described and photographed them. It is a poorly known and little studied species, although concern over its status and that of the closely related marbled murrelet has led to a recent increase in research.

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Easily confused with

Long-billed MurreletBrachyramphus perdixThe long-billed murrelet is a small (25 cm long), chunky auk with a slender black bill. Marbled MurreletBrachyramphus marmoratusThe marbled murrelet is a small (25 cm), chunky auk with a slender black bill.