Marbled Murrelet Threatened

The canadian population was declared nationally threatened in 1990.

Marbled murrelet threatened.

It spends the majority of its time on the ocean restingoosting and feeding but comes inland up to 80 kilometers 50 miles to nest in forest stands with old growth forest characteristics. Marbled murrelets spend most of their lives in marine waters and forage at sea on small fish and invertebrates. The marbled murrelet is a small robin sized diving seabird that feeds primarily on fish and invertebrates in near shore marine waters. Hence protection of such habitat is essential to the conservation of the species.

Marbled murrelets brachyramphus marmoratus are small seabirds that nest in old growth forests and feed in the pacific ocean murrelets need large areas of coastal and near coastal old growth forest for nesting. Fish and wildlife service due to concerns about loss of nesting habitat entanglement in fishing gear and oil spills. They avoid fragmented and partially developed forest landscapes and are declining rapidly in washington and listed as a state endangered species. When airborne the stubby wings of the murrelet beat very rapidly the canadian population was designated threatened by cosewic in 1990.

The marbled murrelet populations in washington oregon and california were listed as threatened in 1992 by the u s. A unique and threatened seabird. White the marbled murrelet can be distinguished by its white throat and a horizontal white strip above the folded wing. Forested areas with conditions that are capable of supporting nesting marbled murrelets are referred to as suitable nesting habitat loss of such nesting habitat was the primary basis for listing the marbled murrelet as threatened.

Fws s threatened endangered species system track information about listed species in the united states. U s fws species profile about species listing status federal register publications recovery critical habitat conservation planning petitions and life history. Throughout much of their range they fly inland for nesting in older forests. The marbled murrelet is listed as a federal threatened and state endangered species wac 220 610 010 in washington endangered means any wildlife species native to the state that is seriously threatened with extinction throughout all or a significant portion of its range within the state.

And about that arcane nickname even though scientists didn t know that marbled murrelets lived up in the old redwood trees before the early 1970s.