2012

Remove Xantus's murrelet
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AOU 53rd supplement: Highlights and near misses

10,000 Birds

Aplomado Falcon ( Falco femoralis ) by Jon David Nelson Shakeups for shearwaters and murrelets Xantus’s Murrelet ( Synthliboramphus hypoleucus ) has been split into California-breeding Scripps’s Murrelet ( Synthliboramphus scrippsi ) and Baja-breeding Guadalupe Murrelet ( Synthliboramphus hypoleucus ).

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When conservation and animal rights collide

10,000 Birds

The island was home to an important population of XantusMurrelet , but the population was suffering as a result of introduced rats. The efforts of the animal rights groups failed, and thanks to the rat free status of Anacapa numbers of the endangered XantusMurrelet were up 80% in three years.