auks
Razorbill bird family
Auks are seabirds of the North Atlantic and North Pacific, including puffins, murres, and razorbills.
They have stocky bodies, short wings, and webbed feet, spending most of their lives at sea and coming ashore only to breed on rocky cliffs.
The great auk, now extinct, was flightless and stood about two feet tall.
Stocky auk, bright beak
Steep natural rock walls
- rookeryCommunal bird nesting site
- colonyDependent territorial settlement
- ledgeProjecting horizontal surface
- burrowAnimal's dug dwelling
nesting · Arctic · subarctic · North Atlantic · North Pacific · Bering Sea · Iceland · Alaska
Entering water deliberately
- swimmingLocomotion through water
- fish-eatingConsuming aquatic vertebrates
- plungeSudden steep descent
- regurgitationEjecting swallowed material
monogamous · fledging · migration · rafting · preening · courtship display · vocalizations
Incapable of aerial travel
- overhuntingExcessive wildlife killing
- specimenIndividual for examination
- museumPublic exhibit space
- extinctionComplete vanishing of a species
feathers · egging · exploitation · conservation · endangered · population decline · protected species
puffin
Stocky auk, bright beak
cliffs
Steep natural rock walls
- rookeryCommunal bird nesting site
- colonyDependent territorial settlement
- ledgeProjecting horizontal surface
burrow · nesting · Arctic · subarctic · North Atlantic · North Pacific · Bering Sea · Iceland · Alaska · Newfoundland
diving
Entering water deliberately
- swimmingLocomotion through water
- fish-eatingConsuming aquatic vertebrates
- plungeSudden steep descent
regurgitation · monogamous · fledging · migration · rafting · preening · courtship display · vocalizations
flightless
Incapable of aerial travel
- overhuntingExcessive wildlife killing
- specimenIndividual for examination
- museumPublic exhibit space
extinction · feathers · egging · exploitation · conservation · endangered · population decline · protected species
- great aukExtinct flightless North Atlantic seabird