View Rule

We will make listing determinations for the Scripps's murrelet and the Guadalupe murrelet under the Endangered Species Act as a separate rulemaking action (RIN 1018-BA22). We are required to designate critical habitat, to the maximum extent prudent and determinable, concurrent with a listing determination. Accordingly, we will develop a critical habitat designation for Scripps's murrelet and Guadalupe murrelet, which inhabit the warm offshore waters of the Pacific. The species breed much farther south than most other members of the alcid family. The two species breed on islands and offshore rocks at the Channel Islands, California, and to the south along the Baja California, Mexico, coastline.