Scripps's Murrelet

When to see the Scripps's Murrelet

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 9 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is May, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Scripps'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 Scripps's Murrelet

Scripps's murrelet is a small seabird found in the California Current system in the Pacific Ocean. This auk breeds on islands off California and Mexico. It is threatened by predators introduced to its breeding colonies and by oil spills.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Craveri's MurreletSynthliboramphus craveriCraveri's murrelet is a small seabird which breeds on offshore islands in both the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of California off the Baja peninsula of Mexico. Guadalupe MurreletSynthliboramphus hypoleucusThe Guadalupe murrelet or Xantus's murrelet is a small seabird found in the California Current system in the Pacific Ocean. Japanese MurreletSynthliboramphus wumizusumeThe Japanese murrelet is a smallish seabird 24–26 cm (9.4–10.2 in) in length, with a wingspan of 43 cm (17 in), and weighing some 164–183 g (5.8–6.5 oz).