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Titre :	Marbled Murrelet in Switzerland: A Pacific Ocean auk new to the Western Palearctic
Auteurs :	Lionel MAUMARY, Auteur ; Peter Knaus, Auteur
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	British Birds (93(4) April, 2000)
Article en page(s) :	190-199
Résumé :	Between 15th and 18th December 1997, a first-winter Marbled Murrelet Brachyramphus marmoratus of the Asian subspecies perdix was discovered dead in a fishing net at Zollikon, Lake Zurich, Switzerland. It constitutes the first record of this Pacific Ocean species for the Western Palearctic, accepted by the Swiss Rarities Committee as relating to a wild bird and placed in Category A. The circumstances of the finding and identification of the specimen are described, and an updated overview of the conservation status in the breeding range and of the taxonomy of this little-known, threatened auk is provided.

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