- An auk or
alcid is a bird of the
family Alcidae in the
order Charadriiformes. The
alcid family includes the murres, guillemots, auklets, puffins, and...
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Retrieved 24 June 2019. Barrows,
Walter Bradford (1877). "Catalogue of the
Alcidae contained in the
Museum of the
Boston Society of
Natural History, with...
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Alcidae is a
clade of
charadriiform birds containing the auks and
their extinct relatives. It was
named in 2011 by N.A. Smith, who
defined it as all...
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colonial seabird and the only
extant member of the
genus Alca of the
family Alcidae, the auks. It is the
closest living relative of the
extinct great auk (Pinguinus...
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young in the
Atlantic Alcidae in
Nettleship &
Birkhead (1985) pp 319–354 Gaston,
Anthony J. & Jones, Ian (1998) The Auks,
Alcidae.
Oxford University Press...
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species of
seabird in the
order Charadriiformes. It is in the auk family,
Alcidae,
which includes the guillemots,
typical auks, murrelets, auklets, puffins...
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relatively abundant medium-sized
pelagic seabird in the auk
family (
Alcidae)
found throughout the
North Pacific Ocean. It is one of
three species of...
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Pleistocene Puffin from the
Southern California Channel Islands. (Aves:
Alcidae)" (PDF).
Proceedings of a
Fifth California Islands Symposium: 525–530....
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crested auklet (Aethia cristatella) is a
small seabird of the
family Alcidae,
distributed throughout the
northern Pacific and the
Bering Sea. The species...
- are wing-propelled;
penguins (Sphenisciformes),
dippers (Cinclus), auks (
Alcidae) and
diving petrels (Pelecanoides). Also the
extinct forms Plotopteridae...
