Auks (Alcidae)
Ancient Murrelet (Synthliboramphus antiquus)
French: Guillemot à cou blanc German: Silberalk Spanish: Mérgulo Antiguo
Other common names: Black-throated/Grey-headed Murrelet
Taxonomy:
Alca antiqua Gmelin, 1789, Bering Sea.
Racial subdivision recently revived, and requires additional examination. Two subspecies provisionally recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- antiquus (Gmelin, 1789) - Yellow Sea and Sea of Japan (Peter the Great Bay) N through Sakhalin, Kuril Is and N Sea of Okhotsk (Talan I) to Kamchatka, then E through Aleutians to S Alaska (St Lazaria I, Forrester I, Kodiak I, Semidi Is, Shumigan Is, Sandman Reefs), and then S to Queen Charlotte Is.
- microrhynchos Stepanyan, 1972 - Mednyi I, Commander Is.
- Least Concern
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A bird at the sea, swimming and diving. Talan Island, Taui Bay, Magadan Oblast, Russia (Eastern) (antiquus)
Josep del Hoyo 28 June 2009 21 weeks ago 36 sec 3
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juvenile Berrien County, Michigan, USA
Michael Retter 1 November 2009 9 weeks ago 3.5
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