Ancient murrelet / Silberalk (Synthliboramphus antiquus)

Wikipedia: Ancient murrelet Source: OTHER 1200px-Ancient_Murrelet_-_Semiahmoo_Spit.jpg
Classification: Genus Synthliboramphus; Family Alcidae
General: The ancient murrelet (Synthliboramphus antiquus) is a bird in the auk family. The genus name Synthliboramphus is from Ancient Greek sunthlibo, "to compress", and rhamphos, "bill", and antiquus is Latin for ancient.^[2] The English term "murrelet" is a diminutive of "murre", a word of uncertain origins, but which may imitate the call of the common guillemot.^[3][4] Ancient murrelets are called "ancient" because they have grey on the back like a shawl, as worn by the elderly.^[5] [more]

🔍 No documented observation