Maps of the birds of the Western Palearctic Region

Auks

CHARADRIIFORMES

Alcidae

Uria aalge
Pelagic and seacoasts, breeds on coastal cliffs. From Greenland, Iceland, Bear I. and Novaya Zemlya s to British Isles, Iberian Pen., n France and c Norway; e Siberia from Kamchatka s to Sakhalin; e Korea, Japan and Kuril and Commander is. From Cape Lisburne, Kotzebue Sound, Norton Sound and Diomede Is. in w Alaska s through Bering Sea islands of St. Matthews, Nunivak and Pribilof, to Aleutian Is., and from sc Alaska s along the Pacific coast to Farallon Is. and c Calif; e N. America from Labrador and se Quebec s to Newfoundland and Nova Scotia.
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                               Uria Gr. ouria
          [uccello acquatico menzionato da Athenaeo mai identificato]
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--      aalge, danese aalge (uria comune)
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Uria lomvia
Pelagic and seacoasts; breeds on coastal cliffs. Coasts and islands in Greenland, Iceland, Jan Mayen, Spitsbergen, Franz Josef Land, n Norway, Kola Pen., Novaya Zemlya, New Siberian I., Wrangel I., e Siberia from Chukotski Pen. s to Kamchatka and Sakhalin, and Kuril and Commander is. From n,w,sw Alaska at Cape Lisburne, Kotzebue Sound and Diomede Is., s through Pribilofs to Aleutians, e to Kodiak, Middleton and St. Lazaria is., nw Mackenzie, and Prince Leopold, Bylot and e Baffin is., s to n Hudson Bay on Coats I., Chesterfield Inlet, n Quebec, Labrador, Gulf of St. Lawrence and Newfoundland. Formerly Maine.
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lomvia, svedese lomvia
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Alca torda
Pelagic and seacoasts; breeds on coastal cliffs and rocky islands.
From Greenland e to British Isles, Bear I., Scandinavia and nw Russia on the Kola Pen., s to n Europe w to France. From se Baffin I. and coast of Labrador s to se Quebec, e Newfoundland, s New Brunswick, e Maine
on Machias Seal I. and Matinicus Rock, and Nova Scotia.
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-torda, svedese tordmule (gazza marina)

Uria aalge

Common Murre

locally abbundant

race: hyperborea, albionis

(bridled morph)

Uria lomvia

Brunnich's Guillemot

Tick-billed Murre

locally abbundant

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Alca torda

Razorbill

Razor-billed Auk

locally abbundant

has bred: Spitsbergen

race: islandica

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Cepphus grylle
Pelagic and seacoasts; breeds on rocky islands and coastal cliffs. From Greenland, Iceland, Faroe Is., British Isles, Scandinavia, Jan Mayen, Spitsbergen, Bear I., Franz Josef Land and Estonia e through nw Russia on the Kola Pen., Novaya Zemlya and New Siberian, Wrangel and Herald is. to ne Siberia on the Chukotski Pen. and Kuril and Commander islands. N Alaska on St. Lawrence I. and from Cape Thompson e to Barter I. and n Yukon; from Ellesmere, Devon, Somerset, Bylot and e Baffin is. and n Labrador s to ne Keewatin, Hudson and James bays, Gulf of St. Lawrence, Maine and Nova Scotia.
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                   Cepphus, Gr. kepphos
                   uccello acquatico menzionato da diversi autori greci
                   (Aristotle, Dionisio e altri) mai identificato
                   grylle, svedese grissla
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Synthliboramphus antiquus
Pelagic and coasts, rarely on large lakes; breeds on rocky seacoasts or in burrows. From Kamchatka s to Amurland, Sakhalin, Dagelet I., Korea, and Kuril and Commander is. From s Alaska on the Aleutian, Sanak and Kodiak islands, s to the Queen Charlotte Is. and nw Washington on Carroll I.
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- Synthliboramphus Gr. sunthlibo (compresso) + rhamphos (becco)
                            [becco compresso lateralmente]
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-                        antiquus L. antiquus (antico)
            [il collare bianco conferisce un aspetto vecchio]
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Alle alle
Pelagic and coastal, breeds on coastal cliffs. On Baffin I.; coasts and islands of Greenland, Iceland, Jan Mayen, Spitsbergen, Bear I., Franz Josef Land, Novaya Zemlya and North Land; probably St. Lawrence and Little Diomede is. in Bering Sea and e Ellesmere I. in Canadian Arctic.
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