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Definition of little auk

little auk
Rotche Rotche, n. (Zo["o]l.) A very small arctic sea bird (Mergulus alle, or Alle alle) common on both coasts of the Atlantic in winter; -- called also little auk, dovekie, rotch, rotchie, and sea dove.

Meaning of little auk from wikipedia

- The little auk or dovekie (Alle alle) is a small auk, the only member of the genus Alle. Alle is the Sami name of the long-tailed duck; it is onomatopoeic...
- "guillemots" in Europe, and the species called little auk in Europe is referred to as dovekie in North America. The word "auk" /ɔːk/ is derived from Icelandic álka...
- The great auk (Pinguinus impennis) is a species of flightless alcid that became extinct in the mid-19th century. It was the only modern species in the...
- is a traditional wintertime Inuit food from Greenland that is made of little auks (Alle alle), a type of seabird, fermented in a seal skin. Making kiviak...
- common eider, long-tailed duck, Brunnich's guillemot, black guillemot, little auk, puffin, fulmar, herring gull, glaucous gull, great black-backed gull...
- dream world." Allan Hunter from the Daily Express called it "A delicate little heartwarmer of a film." Ignatiy Vishnevetsky of the Chicago Sun-Times panned...
- about 20 million individuals during late summer. The most common are: little auk, northern fulmar, thick-billed murre, and black-legged kittiwake. Sixteen...
- the call of the common guillemot. Uria auks are relatives of the razorbill, little auk and the extinct great auk and together make up the tribe Alcini...
- Swiss canton of Jura Alle, Belgium in the province of Namur, Belgium Little auk (Alle alle), a bird which is the only member of the genus Alle August...
- arctica), also known as the common puffin, is a species of seabird in the auk family. It is the only puffin native to the Atlantic Ocean; two related species...