Long-billed Murrelet
Brachyramphus perdix(Pallas, PS, 1811)
English (US) Long-billed Murrelet
The Long-billed Murrelet (Brachyramphus perdix) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Alcidae (Auks, Puffins, and Murres) in the order Charadriiformes.
Range: breeds coastal strip up to 30 km inland in Kamchatka, Sea of Okhotsk, Sakhalin (eastern Russia), and northern Hokkaido (northern Japan); winters to coastal central Japan; prone to long-distance vagrancy to continental USARange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Brachyramphus perdix
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Near Threatened
- English (US)
- Long-billed Murrelet
- Described by
- (Pallas, PS, 1811)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Cepphus Perdix
- Described by
- (Pallas, PS, 1811)
- Type locality
- Bering Sea and Sea of Okhotsk.
- Original description
- Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica, sistens omnium animalium in extenso Imperio Rossico (etc.) 2 p.351
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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