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The ancient murrelet (Synthliboramphus antiquus) is a bird in the auk family.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 46 relations: Alca (bird), Aleutian Islands, Ancient Greek, Auk, Binomial nomenclature, Bird, Bird colony, Bird migration, British Columbia, California, Canada, Carl Linnaeus, Commander Islands, Common murre, Council of the Haida Nation, Crustacean, Devon, English language, Fish, Genus, Great Britain, Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve and Haida Heritage Site, Haida Gwaii, Johann Friedrich Gmelin, Johann Friedrich von Brandt, John Latham (ornithologist), Journal of Archaeological Science, Kamchatka Peninsula, Kuril Islands, L. S. Stepanyan, Latin, Leverian collection, Lundy, Mesopelagic zone, Olympic Peninsula, Pacific Ocean, Palearctic realm, Parks Canada, Russia, Species description, Stable nuclide, Subspecies, Synthliboramphus, Systema Naturae, Thomas Pennant, Yellow Sea.

  2. Birds of the Aleutian Islands
  3. Murrelets
  4. Synthliboramphus

Alca (bird)

Alca is a genus of charadriiform bird that contains a single extant species, the razorbill (Alca torda).

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Aleutian Islands

The Aleutian Islands (Unangam Tanangin, "land of the Aleuts"; possibly from the Chukchi aliat, or "island")—also called the Aleut Islands, Aleutic Islands, or, before 1867, the Catherine Archipelago—are a chain of 14 main, larger volcanic islands and 55 smaller ones.

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Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.

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Auk

Auks or alcids are a group of birds of the family Alcidae in the order Charadriiformes.

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Binomial nomenclature

In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin grammatical forms, although they can be based on words from other languages.

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Bird

Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.

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Bird colony

A bird colony is a large congregation of individuals of one or more species of bird that nest or roost in proximity at a particular location.

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Bird migration

Bird migration is a seasonal movement of birds between breeding and wintering grounds that occurs twice a year.

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British Columbia

British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,Blunt (2004), p. 171.

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Commander Islands

The Commander Islands, Komandorski Islands, or Komandorskie Islands (Командо́рские острова́, Komandorskiye ostrova) are a series of islands in the Russian Far East, a part of the Aleutian Islands, located about east of the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Bering Sea.

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Common murre

The common murre, also called the common guillemot or foolish guillemot, (Uria aalge) is a large auk. Ancient murrelet and common murre are birds of the Aleutian Islands.

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Council of the Haida Nation

The Council of the Haida Nation (CHN; X̱aaydaG̱a Waadlux̱an Naay) is the elected government of the Haida Nation.

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Crustacean

Crustaceans are a group of arthropods that are a part of the subphylum Crustacea, a large, diverse group of mainly aquatic arthropods including decapods (shrimps, prawns, crabs, lobsters and crayfish), seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, opossum shrimps, amphipods and mantis shrimp.

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Devon

Devon (historically also known as Devonshire) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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Fish

A fish (fish or fishes) is an aquatic, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fins and a hard skull, but lacking limbs with digits.

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Genus

Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.

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Great Britain

Great Britain (commonly shortened to Britain) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe, consisting of the countries England, Scotland and Wales.

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Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve and Haida Heritage Site

Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve, National Marine Conservation Area, and Haida Heritage Site, usually referred to simply as Gwaii Haanas, is located in southernmost Haida Gwaii (formerly known as Queen Charlotte Islands), off the mainland of British Columbia, Canada.

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Haida Gwaii

Haida Gwaii (X̱aaydag̱a Gwaay.yaay / X̱aayda gwaay, literally "Islands of the Haida people"), also known as the Queen Charlotte Islands, is an archipelago located between off the northern Pacific coast of Canada.

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Johann Friedrich Gmelin

Johann Friedrich Gmelin (8 August 1748 – 1 November 1804) was a German naturalist, chemist, botanist, entomologist, herpetologist, and malacologist.

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Johann Friedrich von Brandt

Johann Friedrich von Brandt (25 May 1802 – 15 July 1879) was a German-Russian naturalist, who worked mostly in Russia.

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John Latham (ornithologist)

John Latham (27 June 1740 – 4 February 1837) was an English physician, naturalist and author.

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Journal of Archaeological Science

The Journal of Archaeological Science is a monthly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers "the development and application of scientific techniques and methodologies to all areas of archaeology".

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Kamchatka Peninsula

The Kamchatka Peninsula (poluostrov Kamchatka) is a peninsula in the Russian Far East, with an area of about.

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Kuril Islands

The Kuril Islands or Kurile Islands (p; Japanese: or) are a volcanic archipelago administered as part of Sakhalin Oblast in the Russian Far East.

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L. S. Stepanyan

Leo Surenovich Stepanyan (Лео Суренович Степанян) (19 March 1931 – 16 February 2002) was an Armenian ornithologist, best known as the author of the Conspectus of the ornithological fauna of the USSR, a taxonomic work in Russian on birds of the Soviet Union.

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Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Leverian collection

The Leverian collection was a natural history and ethnographic collection assembled by Ashton Lever.

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Lundy

Lundy is an English island in the Bristol Channel.

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Mesopelagic zone

The mesopelagic zone (Greek μέσον, middle), also known as the middle pelagic or twilight zone, is the part of the pelagic zone that lies between the photic epipelagic and the aphotic bathypelagic zones.

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Olympic Peninsula

The Olympic Peninsula is a large arm of land in western Washington that lies across Puget Sound from Seattle, and contains Olympic National Park.

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.

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Palearctic realm

The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth.

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Parks Canada

Parks Canada (Parcs Canada),Parks Canada is the applied title under the Federal Identity Program; the legal title is Parks Canada Agency.

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Russia

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.

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Species description

A species description is a formal scientific description of a newly encountered species, typically articulated through a scientific publication.

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Stable nuclide

Stable nuclides are nuclides that are not radioactive and so (unlike radionuclides) do not spontaneously undergo radioactive decay.

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Subspecies

In biological classification, subspecies (subspecies) is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed.

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Synthliboramphus

Synthliboramphus is a small genus of seabirds in the auk family from the North Pacific.

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Systema Naturae

(originally in Latin written with the ligature æ) is one of the major works of the Swedish botanist, zoologist and physician Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) and introduced the Linnaean taxonomy.

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Thomas Pennant

Thomas Pennant (16 December 1798) was a Welsh naturalist, traveller, writer and antiquarian.

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Yellow Sea

The Yellow Sea, also known as North Sea, is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean located between mainland China and the Korean Peninsula, and can be considered the northwestern part of the East China Sea.

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See also

Birds of the Aleutian Islands

Murrelets

Synthliboramphus

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_murrelet

Also known as Synthliboramphus antiquus.