The planktivorous alcids (auklets, dovekies, murrelets) participate in a relatively short food chain, as krill feed directly on phytoplankton. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Species that depend on big stands of old growth, such as marbled murrelets and spotted owls, would have much less room to roam.
Piscivorous alcids (murres, razorbills, puffins, guillemots, murrelets) feed further up the food chain, as they consume bait fish. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Alcidae is the name for a family of marine birds that includes murres, razorbills, dovekies, puffins, guillemots, auklets, and murrelets. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Some of the highest nesting concentrations of bald eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) and marbled murrelets (Brachyramphus marmoratus) in North America occur in southeast Alaska, Prince William Sound, and the Kodiak Archipelago. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Logging and road building remain significant threats to mature forest habitat and to some species such as marbled murrelets (Brachyramphus marmoratus), cavity nesters and raptors. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Many seabirds are prevalent, including marbled murrelets, and several species of cormorants, gulls, mures, petrels and puffins. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Marbled murrelets and other old growth specialist species continue to be threatened through deforestation and subsequent ecological changes in remaining habitats. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Native to islands of the North Atlantic, it might have escaped total eradication by humans if not for the fact that, unlike puffins and murrelets, the great auk was flightless. ❋ David Quammen (2004)
The great auk, now extinct, was an overgrown member of the same sea bird family that includes puffins and murrelets. ❋ David Quammen (2004)
All three have confirmed the need to set aside larger areas of habitat to protect species which depend on old growth forest ecosystems, such as northern spotted owls, marbled murrelets, and several species of salmon. ❋ ITY National Archives (1993)
The idea of changing the management plan for the forest goes back about 10 years, when forest managers could not get federal approval for proposed changes to a system of protecting habitat for fish and wildlife that would include marbled murrelets, a threatened sea bird that nests in old growth forests. ❋ Unknown (2011)
At issue was habitat for marbled murrelets, a seabird listed in 1992 as threatened under the federal Endangered Species Act. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Although it supports projects to reduce climate change, the harm to marbled murrelets outweighed the benefits of reduced carbon output, the group said. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Fall to spring, find Brandt's, pelagic and double-crested cormorants; Western and red-necked grebes; Mew, ring-billed and Thayer's gulls; common murres, marbled murrelets, plus black oystercatchers. ❋ Unknown (2012)
"In violation of the law, Federal Highways failed to analyze the environmental effects of reconstructing the Suiattle River Road on ancient forests, protected species -- such as salmon, spotted owls and marbled murrelets -- and a whole host of important ecological values," said Susan Jane Brown of the Western Environmental Law Center. ❋ Unknown (2011)
● Protect nesting common murres at Point Reyes, ashy storm-petrels on the Farallones, ancient murrelets in British Columbia, and shearwaters in New Zealand from depredation; and ❋ Unknown (2010)
