Auks

Auks are capable of diving to impressive depths, though the vast majority of dives are much shallower than the maximum depths recorded for various species.

Alcids in marine ecosystems 2009

Next to a pink double bed are three chests of drawers of eggs; the nearest to the pink pillows are labeled “Doves,” “Cormorants and Darters,” “Auks, Petrels,” and “Penguins, Pelicans, Storks, Gannet.”

A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

Auks are sexually monomorphic, meaning that males and females look the same.

Alcids in marine ecosystems 2009

The Atlantic Alcidae: the evolution, distribution and biology of the Auks inhabiting the Atlantic Ocean and adjacent water areas.

Alcids in marine ecosystems 2009

Auks are visual hunters and must have some light to find prey, but sometimes they dive to depths, and at times of day, where the light is dim.

Alcids in marine ecosystems 2009

However, there are ... fifty-four Auks resident there.

Nightside The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1993

Some of the sea birds of the far North, as, for example, the Murres and Auks, often lay their eggs on the shelving cliffs exposed to the sweep of the ocean gales.

The Bird Study Book Thomas Gilbert Pearson

Great Auks were once numbered literally by millions in the North

The Bird Study Book Thomas Gilbert Pearson

For years fishermen going to the Banks in early summer depended on Auks for their meat supply.

The Bird Study Book Thomas Gilbert Pearson

One was established in Porto Rico, and several others among the islands of Alaska, on whose rocky cliffs may be seen to-day clouds of Puffins, Auks, and Guillemots -- queer creatures that stand upright like a man -- crowding and shouldering each other about on the ledges which overlook the dark waters of Bering Sea.

The Bird Study Book Thomas Gilbert Pearson