Vertebrates
Mammals
Bat Species
Mountain Beaver
Pacific Water Shrew
Townsend’s Mole
Birds
Barn Owl
Barn Swallow
Great Blue Heron, fannini subspecies
Marbled Murrelet
American Goshawk, laingi subspecies
Short-eared Owl
Western Screech-Owl, kennicottii subspecies
Amphibians
Coastal Giant Salamander
Coastal Tailed Frog
Northern Red-legged Frog
Oregon Spotted Frog
Western Toad
Reptiles
Common Sharp-tailed Snake
Painted Turtle, Pacific Coast Population
Fish
Nooksack Dace
Salish Sucker
Invertebrates
Insects
Dun Skipper
Grappletail
Johnson’s Hairstreak
Molluscs
Olympia Oyster
Oregon Forestsnail
Plants
Non-Vascular
Poor pocket moss
Vascular
Phantom orchid
Streambank lupine
Tall bugbane
Vancouver Island beggarticks
Ecological Communities
Arbutus
Coastal Douglas-fir
Coastal Sand Ecosystems
Coastal Western Hemlock

Marbled Murrelets are a member of the family Alcidae (auks), with no subspecies recognized in North America. Several species of seabird in a number of genera are referred to as “murrelets” in North America; Marbled Murrelet is one of only two members of the Brachyramphus genus for BC. They nest at low densities within 50 km of the coast. A few birds venture farther inland, up to 80 km from the coast. In BC, Marbled Murrelets generally nest in older forest stands (>140 years, but >250 years preferred), laying a single egg in a depression on a moss-covered branch. The largest terrestrial threat to Marbled Murrelet in BC is the fragmentation and loss of old-growth nesting habitat

  • On its nest
  • In flight
  • On the ocean

This is a species at risk. To find its current at-risk designation and listing info, visit the BC Species and Ecosystems Explorer. For direction on finding additional species recovery information, visit the Species and Ecological Communities Profiles Overview webpage.

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