Dow's puffin

Dow's puffin (Fratercula dowi) is a seabird in the auk family described in 2000 from subfossil remains found in the Channel Islands of California.[1]

The remains include articulated skeletons and several thousand disarticulated bones. They were found in a Late Pleistocene eolianite horizon on the islands of San Nicolas and San Miguel. They date from between 12,000 and 100,000 BP and, as well as associated eggshells, include both adult and immature birds that apparently died in their burrows at their breeding colonies.[1]