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Interesting Facts
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Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Long-Billed Murre, Long-billed Murrelet
Common Names in French:
Guillemot 'à long bec'
Description
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Physical Description
Adult Summer: Face : Chin: whitish Bill: black Curvature: straight Length : Long-Billed Murre Neck: Throat : whitish Body: Underparts: light brown with brown barring Upperparts: dark brown with darker brown barring.
Size/Age/Growth
About 11.5 inches long, with a wingspan of 18 to 18 inches.
Habitat
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 5,308 meters (0 to 17,415 feet).[1]
Ecology:
It breeds
in old-growth coniferous
forests
within 100 km
of the coast,
wintering
in sheltered coastal waters
.
[2].
List of Habitats
:
- 1 Forest
- 1.1 Forest - Boreal
- 1.4 Forest - Temperate
- 9 Marine Neritic
- 9.1 Marine Neritic - Pelagic
- 9.2 Marine Neritic - Subtidal Rock and Rocky Reefs
- 9.3 Marine Neritic - Subtidal Loose Rock/pebble/gravel
- 9.4 Marine Neritic - Subtidal Sandy
- 9.5 Marine Neritic - Subtidal Sandy-Mud
- 9.7 Marine Neritic - Macroalgal/Kelp
- 9.9 Marine Neritic - Seagrass (Submerged)
- 10 Marine Oceanic
- 10.1 Marine Oceanic - Epipelagic (0-200m)
- 10.2 Marine Oceanic - Mesopelagic (200-1000m)
- 13 Marine Coastal/Supratidal
- 13.4 Marine Coastal/Supratidal - Coastal Brackish/Saline Lagoons/Marine Lakes [more info]
Biology
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Migration
Nonmigratory
Taxonomy
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- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
()
- (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Bateson, 1885
- Chordates
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
()
- Cuvier, 1812
- Vertebrates
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
()
- auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
()
- Goodrich, 1930
- Class:
Aves
()
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Subclass:
Avialae
()
- Gauthier, 1986
- Infraclass:
Aves
()
- (C. Linnaeus, 1758)
- Cohort:
Neognathae
()
- Pycraft, 1900
- Superorder:
Charadriimorphae
()
- Huxley, 1867
- Order:
Charadriiformes
()
- Huxley, 1867
- Suborder:
Lari
()
- Sharpe, 1891
- Infraorder:
Alcides
()
- Sharpe, 1891
- Family:
Alcidae
()
- Vigors, 1825
- Subfamily:
Alcinae
()
- Genus:
Brachyramphus
()
- J.F. Brandt, 1837
- Specific name:
perdix
- (Pallas) 1811
- Scientific name: - Brachyramphus perdix (Pallas, 1811) (Pallas) 1811
- Specific name:
perdix
- (Pallas) 1811
- Genus:
Brachyramphus
(
- Subfamily:
Alcinae
(
- Family:
Alcidae
(
- Infraorder:
Alcides
(
- Suborder:
Lari
(
- Order:
Charadriiformes
(
- Superorder:
Charadriimorphae
(
- Cohort:
Neognathae
(
- Infraclass:
Aves
(
- Subclass:
Avialae
(
- Class:
Aves
(
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Synonyms
Brachyramphus perdix (Pallas, 1811) • Brachyramphus perdrix
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001
Similar Species
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Marbled Murrelet, Kittlitz's Murrelet
Members of the genus Brachyramphus
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 9 species and subspecies in this genus:
B. brevirostris (Short-Billed Murrelet) · B. craveri (Craveri's Murrelet) · B. hypoleuca (Xantus's Murrelet) · B. hypoleuca hypoleuca (Xantus's Murrelet) · B. hypoleucus (Xantus's Murrelet) · B. marmoratus (Long-Billed Murrelet) · B. marmoratus marmoratus (Long-Billed Murrelet) · B. marmoratus maroratum (Marbled Murrelet) · B. perdix (Long-Billed Murre)
More Info
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Further Reading
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- A manual of North American birds. By Robert Ridgway. Illustrated by 464 outline drawings of the generic characters. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1887. url p. 15.
- A manual of North American birds. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1887. url p. 15.
- Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 746.
- Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. url p. 592.
- Ecology and conservation of the marbled murrelet / [technical editors, C. John Ralph. .. et al.]. Albany, Calif.: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, [1995] url p. 4.
- Key to North American birds. Containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland and lower California By Elliot Coues. Boston, D. Estes and Company, 1903. url p. 1076.
- The Auk. Washington, D.C.: American Ornithologists' Union, etc., 1884- url p. 65.
- The Journal of the Museum of Comparative Oology. Santa Barbara, Calif.: The Museum, 1919-1922 url p. 11.
- The birds of North and Middle America: a descriptive catalogue of the higher groups, genera, species, and subspecies of birds known to occur in North America, from the Arctic lands to the Isthmus of Panama, the West Indies and other island Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1901- url .
Notes
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Contributors
- BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
- BirdLife International 2010. Brachyramphus perdix. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 30January2012.
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 9, 2012.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 08, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 3 providers.
- IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
- Peterson, Alan P. Zoological Nomenclature Resource. Accessed June 19, 2009.
- Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 08, 2008:
- Avian Knowledge Network: eBird
- Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility: Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. Birds (Aves)
- Canadian Museum of Nature: Canadian Museum of Nature Bird Collection
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 8419
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-554143
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13780892
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 554143
- IUCN ID: 195831
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 150164
Footnotes
- Mean = 554.270 meters (1,818.471 feet), Standard Deviation = 844.560 based on 103,502 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
- BirdLife International 2010. Brachyramphus perdix. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 30 January 2012. [back]
