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    Auk (redirect from Alcidae)
    An auk or alcid is a bird of the family Alcidae in the order Charadriiformes. The alcid family includes the murres, guillemots, auklets, puffins, and...
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    Pan-Alcidae is a clade of charadriiform birds containing the auks and their extinct relatives. It was named in 2011 by N.A. Smith, who defined it as all...
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    Retrieved 24 June 2019. Barrows, Walter Bradford (1877). "Catalogue of the Alcidae contained in the Museum of the Boston Society of Natural History, with...
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    colonial seabird and the only extant member of the genus Alca of the family Alcidae, the auks. It is the closest living relative of the extinct great auk (Pinguinus...
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    young in the Atlantic Alcidae in Nettleship & Birkhead (1985) pp 319–354 Gaston, Anthony J. & Jones, Ian (1998) The Auks, Alcidae. Oxford University Press...
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    revision and phylogenetic analysis of the flightless Mancallinae (Aves, Pan-Alcidae)". ZooKeys (91): 1–116. Bibcode:2011ZooK...91....1S. doi:10.3897/zookeys...
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    Retrieved 14 May 2010. Smith, N (2015). "Evolution of body mass in the Pan-Alcidae (Aves, Charadriiformes): the effects of combining neontological and paleontological...
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    great auk, Pinguinis [sic], from the Pliocene of North Carolina (Aves: Alcidae)" (PDF). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 90 (3): 690–697...
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  • Pleistocene Puffin from the Southern California Channel Islands. (Aves: Alcidae)" (PDF). Proceedings of a Fifth California Islands Symposium: 525–530....
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    species of seabird in the order Charadriiformes. It is in the auk family, Alcidae, which includes the guillemots, typical auks, murrelets, auklets, puffins...
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    a relatively abundant medium-sized pelagic seabird in the auk family (Alcidae) found throughout the North Pacific Ocean. It is one of three species of...
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    The crested auklet (Aethia cristatella) is a small seabird of the family Alcidae, distributed throughout the northern Pacific and the Bering Sea. The species...
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    This is a list of European species extinct in the Holocene that covers extinctions from the Holocene epoch, a geologic epoch that began about 11,650 years...
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    skimmers (103 species) Family Stercorariidae – skuas (7 species) Family Alcidae – auks (25 species) and sometimes: Family Turnicidae – buttonquails (18...
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    revision and phylogenetic analysis of the flightless Mancallinae (Aves, Pan-Alcidae)". ZooKeys (91): 1–116. Bibcode:2011ZooK...91....1S. doi:10.3897/zookeys...
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    genetic study, the genus Pinguinus belongs in the family of the auks (Alcidae), within the order of the Charadriiformes. The birds currently known as...
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    Turnicidae (occasionally included) Glareolidae (occasioally included) Cladistically included but traditionally excluded taxa Laridae Stercorariidae Alcidae...
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    Retrieved 13 November 2021. Gaston, A.J. and Jones, I.L. 1998. The Auks: Alcidae. Bird Families of the World. Oxford University Press, 349pp. Badikova,...
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    guillemot or tystie (Cepphus grylle) is a medium-sized seabird of the Alcidae family, native throughout northern Atlantic coasts and eastern North American...
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  • are wing-propelled; penguins (Sphenisciformes), dippers (Cinclus), auks (Alcidae) and diving petrels (Pelecanoides). Also the extinct forms Plotopteridae...
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    Alca (bird) (category Alcidae)
    (2011). "An Alphataxonomic Revision of Extinct and Extant Razorbills (Aves, Alcidae): A Combined Morphometric and Phylogenetic Approach". Ornithological Monographs...
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    (1982). "Longevity records of North American birds: Gaviidae through Alcidae". Journal of Field Ornithology. 53 (2): 81–124. ISSN 0273-8570. JSTOR 4512701...
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    buttonquail (Turnix varia) Red-chested buttonquail (Turnix pyrrhothorax) "Alcidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-26...
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    Aethia (category Alcidae)
    Aethia. "Alcidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-26. Gaston, A.J.; Jones, I.L. (1998). The Auks: Alcidae. New York:...
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    Clarke, J.A. (2007). "First Atlantic record of the puffin Cerorhinca (Aves, Alcidae) from the Pliocene of North Carolina" (PDF). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology...
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    This list of North American animals extinct in the Holocene features animals known to have become extinct in the last 11,700 years on the North American...
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    This list of African species extinct in the Holocene covers extinctions from the Holocene epoch, a geologic epoch that began about 11,650 years before...
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    Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Charadriiformes Family: Alcidae Genus: Fratercula Species: F. corniculata Binomial name Fratercula corniculata...
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    families: the divers or loons (Gaviidae), grouse (Tetraoninae), auks (Alcidae), and waxwings (Bombycillidae). There are no endemic mammal orders in the...
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    murre or Brünnich's guillemot (Uria lomvia) is a bird in the auk family (Alcidae). This bird is named after the Danish zoologist Morten Thrane Brünnich...
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