Maps of the birds of the Western Palearctic Region

Auks

CHARADRIIFORMES

Alcidae

Aethia cristatella
Pelagic and coastal; breeds on rocky slopes, cliffs and beaches.
From Chukotski Pen., s to Kamchatka, Sakhalin and c Kuril Is.
From islands in Bering Sea on Diomede, Fairway Rock and Sledge I.,
and w Alaska on Norton Sound, s to Pribilofs and Aleutians e to
Shumagin and Semidi is., but absent from Near Is.
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                                      -Aethia Gr. aithula
                [uccello marino menzionato da Aristotele ed Eschilo
                 mai rintracciato]
                -cristatella diminuitivo del L. cristatus (crestato)
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Cyclorrhynchus psittacula
Pelagic and coastal; breeds on coastal cliffs, islands and rocky slopes and beaches. From Chukotski Pen. s to Sea of Okhotsk, Kamchatka and Commander Is. W Alaska from Diomede Is., Fairway Rock, Sledge I. and Norton Sound s to Pribilof and Aleutian islands, e to islands in Prince William Sound.
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   -Cyclorrhynchus Gr.kuklos (cerchio, scudo) + rhunkhos (becco)
                         (becco forte simile al pappagallo)
                         -psittacula psittacus (pappagallo)
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Fratercula arctica
Pelagic and coastal; breeds on rocky slopes and burrows on coasts and islands. From Greenland, Iceland, Faroe Is., Spitsbergen, Bear I. and Novaya Zemlya s to British Isles, nw France, n Scandinavia and nw Russia on the Kola Pen. From Labrador s to se Quebec, Newfoundland, sw New Brunswick and Seal I. and Matinicus Rock off e Maine; Digges I. off nw Quebec.
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                          -Fratercula Lat. fraterculus (frate)
                [apparenza incappucciata e manto bianco-nero]
           -                     -arctica L. arcticus (nord)
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Aethia cristatella

Crested Auklet

Vagrant

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Cyclorrhynchus psittacula

Parakeet Auklet

Vagrant

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Fratercula arctica

Atlantic Puffin

Locally abbundant

Lunda cirrhata
[Fratercula cirrhata].
Pelagic and coastal; breeds in burrows on rocky slopes or islands.
From Chukotski Pen. s to Ussuriland, Sakhalin, n Japan and Kuril and Commander islands. In nw N. America from Diomede Is. and Cape Thompson in w Alaska s to Aleutians and s Alaska, s along coast to the Farallon Is. off c Calif. Formerly on Anacapa I.
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Lunda nome fareoese lunda
cirrhata L. cirratus (con capelli)
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Brachyramphus marmoratus
Pelagic and seacoasts; usually nests in coastal coniferous forest on high limbs of tall trees; occasionally on the ground.
Most ground nests have been found in treeless areas in Alaska, but see note below.
Known to breed only in Alaska on the Kenai Pen. and Barren Is., w Washington and locally in n coastal California s to Santa Cruz County. Probably in other places from Alaska to California, but nests difficult to
find high up in tall trees.
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Ford and Brown (1995. Wilson Bull. 107:178-179) cited previous
records of ground nests and described one in old-growth forest on n
Prince of Wales Island in se Alaska, ca. 13 km from saltwater.
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