Ancient Murrelets in the Mountain West, Great Lakes, and Beyond
In fall 2023, an amazing total of ten vagrant Ancient Murrelets turned up well inland in the ABA Area, from the Snake River in Oregon to Chickamauga Lake in Tennessee. This remarkable incursion followed months of record-high ocean surface temperatures in the species’s North Pacific range, as well as a bomb cyclone and an ice-free Northwest Passage through the Arctic.
