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Craveri’s Murrelet Synthliboramphus craveri
Jehl describes a bird that he saw on 13th April 1973 off the coast of Guatemala that was probably this species. He tried to collect it, but it dived and was not seen again. He reports “I did not see the underwing colour, but the face pattern and bill shape were more like S. craveri than S. hypoleucus (Xantus’s Murrelet). Although the specific identification must remain tentative, the generic identification is certain. The bird was defiantly not a diving petrel, the presence of which seems only slightly less probable”. Apparently, it’s most southerly record of any Alcid.