During the afternoon of 15 June 1981 a distressed Least Auklet (Aethia pusilla) was found on Thornton State Beach in Daly City, San Mateo County, California, the first location southeast of Kodiak, Alaska, where the Least Auklet has been recorded. A park ranger rescued the bird and delivered it to the Peninsula Humane Society in San Mateo. Despite care the auklet died overnight. On 18 June I confirmed the identification and secured the specimen for the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ), University of California, Berkeley.