Genus
Brachyramphus (Brachyramphus murrelets)
Brachyramphus perdix. Photo: (c) kerry_ross, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
Brachyramphus is a small genus of seabirds from the North Pacific. Brachyramphus is from Ancient Greek brakhus, “short”, and rhamphos, “bill”. The species are named as “murrelets”; this is a diminutive of “murre”, a word of uncertain origins, but which may imitate the call of the common guillemot.
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