auks

Penguins closely resemble auks—even filling a similar ecological niche in the opposite hemisphere—and the casual observer often confuses these two groups of birds.

The Great Penguin Rescue Dyan DeNapoli 2010

Egg collecting is not as widespread as bird hunting, and has usually involved ground nesting species such as common eiders, Arctic terns (Sterna paradisaea), and gulls, which is technically illegal, as well as little auks (Alle alle).

Management and conservation of marine mammals and seabirds in the Arctic 2009

They bring up the wet of the deep on their backs and show it to the sky and the auks and the gannets and me.

A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

On the ledges, the auks jabber and the gannets fret.

A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

Little auks (Alle alle) and ivory gulls (Pagophila eburnea) also eat sympagic amphipods.

General description of the Arctic biota 2009

Indigenous peoples have also collected eggs and hunted birds among coastal colonies of auks and other seabirds.

Indigenous peoples, animals, and climate in the Arctic 2009

Researchers study the diving behavior of auks using miniature bird-bourn electronic data-loggers called time-depth recorders (TDRs).

Alcids in marine ecosystems 2009

Heavy rain could flood the nests of burrowing species such as little auks or puffins [72] and freezing rain could affect the thermal balance of exposed chicks leading to mortality [73].

Future change in processes and impacts on Arctic biota 2009

In the Murmansk region however, local hunting regulations permit hunting of alcids (auks, puffins, guillemots, etc.) in autumn and winter [17].

Management and conservation of marine mammals and seabirds in the Arctic 2009

There is also concern that little auks, specialist feeders on arctic copepods during the summer, would be negatively affected by the changes predicted in the "Calanus complex" in the Barents Sea and other parts of the North Atlantic.

Future change in processes and impacts on Arctic biota 2009