little auk

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little auk

n.
See dovekie.
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Noun1.little auk - small short-billed auk abundant in Arctic regionslittle auk - small short-billed auk abundant in Arctic regions
dovekie, Plautus alle
auk - black-and-white short-necked web-footed diving bird of northern seas
genus Plautus, Plautus - a genus of Alcidae
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petit guillemot
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Key words: alcid, Alcidae, Alle alle, British Columbia, Dovekie, Little Auk, vagrant
First Canadian breeding record for the Dovekie (Alle alle).
First record of Dovekie in British Columbia
We describe four records of colour aberrations in the dovekie (Alle alle).
Nous decrivons quatre mentions d'aberrations de couleur chez le mergule nain (Alle alle).
Not always black and white: colour aberrations in the dovekie
We examined blood parasites in a seabird with an exclusively high-Arctic breeding distribution, the little auk (Alle alle).
J Wildl Dis.: No evidence of blood parasites in little auks (Alle alle) breeding on Svalbard
The seventh-grade science teacher joined Ann Harding, a biologist at Alaska Pacific University, to study the feeding habits of a bird known as the little auk (Alle alle).
Fight or flight: can a tiny bird that breeds in greenland win the battle against climate change? Teens at a California school get the scoop from their adventurous science teacher
We describe three previously unreported methods that hunting glaucous gulls (Larus hyperboreus) use to capture nesting and fledgling dovekies (Alle alle).
Glaucous gull predation on dovekies: three new hunting methods
Observations were made of glaucous gulls (Larus hyperboreus) stealing little auks (Alle alle) stored in a den by arctic foxes (Vulpes lagopus) in Magdalenefjorden, northwest Spitsbergen.
Glaucous gulls kleptoparasiting arctic foxes in Magdalenefjorden, NW Spitsbergen

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