Nest monitoring and spotlight surveys of Scripps’s Murrelet in Channel Islands National Park, California

Project Description

The California Institute of Environmental Studies will conduct Scripps’s Murrelet nest monitoring and spotlight surveys during the 2018 breeding season at Anacapa Island in Channel Islands National Park. The Scripps’s Murrelet is a rare alcid that only breeds on 12 islands off the coast of California and northern Mexico, with one of the largest breeding populations on Anacapa Island. Project activities will build on previous efforts to document pre-and post-rat eradication recovery of the Scripps’s Murrelet on Anacapa Island following the removal of non-native black rats.

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Mike Parker
California Institute of Environmental Studies