Noun:

উত্তর-সমুদ্র-অঁচলের ক্ষুদ্র ডানাত্তয়ালা পক্ষিবিশেষ,

auks's Usage Examples:

Extant auks range in size from the least auklet.

a rarity in nature that provided only a few breeding sites for the great auks.

Puffins are any of three species of small alcids (auks) in the bird genus Fratercula.

Uria auks are relatives of the razorbill, little auk and the extinct great auk and.

Cepphus columba Spectacled guillemot, Cepphus carbo As in other genera of auks, fossils of prehistoric forms of Cepphus have been found: Cepphus olsoni.

colonial seabird in the monotypic genus Alca of the family Alcidae, the auks.

Little auks produce a variety of twitters and cackling calls at the breeding colonies, but are silent at sea.

[citation needed] Little auks breed in.

The auks are a family of seabirds related to the gulls and terns which contains several.

Compared to other auks they forage fairly close to the colony, in the breeding season mostly in.

and similar auks, have some—as yet unknown—mechanism to avoid diving sickness and lung collapse when surfacing.

It is postulated that auks temporarily.

They are sometimes collectively referred to as Lucas auks after the scientist who described the first species, Frederic Augustus Lucas.

Pan-Alcidae is a clade of charadriiform birds containing the auks and their extinct relatives.

aquatic birds such as flamingos and grebes (Mirandornithes), shorebirds and auks (Charadriiformes), or the Anseriformes.

The auks are now placed into the Lari too, following recent research.

IUCN Bristle-thighed curlew (Numenius tahitiensis) VU IUCN Family Alcidae (auks) Kittlitz's murrelet (Brachyramphus brevirostris) CR IUCN Marbled murrelet.

In 1990 Charles Sibley and Jon Ahlquist included auks and skuas in a broader family Laridae.

Synthliboramphus auks are small, with mainly black upper parts and white the short wings.

These birds forage for food like other auks, by swimming underwater.

Colonial nesting birds include seabirds such as auks and albatrosses; wetland species such as herons; and a few passerines such.

sometimes believed to be an early member of the Charadriiformes (waders, gulls, auks, etc.

Synonyms:

Plautus alle; razor-billed auk; family Alcidae; Alca torda; dovekie; little auk; great auk; sea bird; Alcidae; auklet; razorbill; Pinguinus impennis; guillemot; seafowl; seabird;