Scripps's Murrelet at San Miguel Island, California: status of a small population at the northwest limit of the breeding range

• Main Authors: Whitworth, Darrell L., Carter, Harry R.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: BYU ScholarsArchive 2018
• Subjects: San Miguel; Castle Rock; Bay Point; Hoffman Point; Rattus rattus
• Online Access: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/wnan/vol78/iss3/11; https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/context/wnan/article/2449/viewcontent/78.3.11_Whitworth__San_Miguel__Article__450_dpi.pdf

San Miguel Island (SMI) and its adjacent islets, Prince Island and Castle Rock, support a small population of Scripps’s Murrelets (Synthliboramphus scrippsi) at the northwest limit of their breeding range. In 1994–1996, 2004, 2007, and 2015, we conducted at-sea surveys and nest searches to determine...