• Thumbnail for Auk
    Auk (redirect from Alcidae)
    Auks or alcids are a group of birds of the family Alcidae in the order Charadriiformes. The alcid family includes the murres, guillemots, auklets, puffins...
    21 KB (2,052 words) - 02:58, 15 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Puffin
    Retrieved 24 June 2019. Barrows, Walter Bradford (1877). "Catalogue of the Alcidae contained in the Museum of the Boston Society of Natural History, with...
    24 KB (2,351 words) - 05:01, 5 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pan-Alcidae
    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...
    3 KB (357 words) - 05:02, 10 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tufted puffin
    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...
    15 KB (1,725 words) - 20:05, 13 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Common murre
    young in the Atlantic Alcidae in Nettleship & Birkhead (1985) pp 319–354 Gaston, Anthony J. & Jones, Ian (1998) The Auks, Alcidae. Oxford University Press...
    42 KB (5,056 words) - 00:12, 15 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Atlantic puffin
    species of seabird in the order Charadriiformes. It is in the auk family, Alcidae, which includes the guillemots, typical auks, murrelets, auklets, puffins...
    73 KB (9,027 words) - 21:19, 1 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Razorbill
    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...
    34 KB (3,776 words) - 21:21, 11 September 2024
  • Pleistocene Puffin from the Southern California Channel Islands. (Aves: Alcidae)" (PDF). Proceedings of a Fifth California Islands Symposium: 525–530....
    8 KB (928 words) - 13:24, 12 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Parakeet auklet
    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,...
    6 KB (728 words) - 07:40, 15 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Thick-billed murre
    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...
    27 KB (2,950 words) - 01:01, 22 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lari (bird)
    skimmers (103 species) Family Stercorariidae – skuas (7 species) Family Alcidae – auks (25 species) and sometimes: Family Turnicidae – buttonquails (18...
    6 KB (487 words) - 18:55, 10 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pinguinus alfrednewtoni
    great auk, Pinguinis [sic], from the Pliocene of North Carolina (Aves: Alcidae)" (PDF). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 90 (3): 690–697...
    14 KB (1,667 words) - 15:48, 24 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rhinoceros auklet
    Clarke, J.A. (2007). "First Atlantic record of the puffin Cerorhinca (Aves, Alcidae) from the Pliocene of North Carolina" (PDF). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology...
    9 KB (1,161 words) - 16:41, 14 July 2024
  • are wing-propelled; penguins (Sphenisciformes), dippers (Cinclus), auks (Alcidae) and diving petrels (Pelecanoides). Also the extinct forms Plotopteridae...
    8 KB (863 words) - 19:59, 4 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of European species extinct in the Holocene
    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...
    87 KB (4,320 words) - 18:16, 1 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wader
    Turnicidae (occasionally included) Glareolidae (occasionally included) Cladistically included but traditionally excluded taxa Laridae Stercorariidae Alcidae...
    15 KB (1,709 words) - 19:32, 12 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Buttonquail
    buttonquail (Turnix varia) Red-chested buttonquail (Turnix pyrrhothorax) "Alcidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-26...
    10 KB (1,020 words) - 03:49, 24 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Horned puffin
    Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Charadriiformes Family: Alcidae Genus: Fratercula Species: F. corniculata Binomial name Fratercula corniculata...
    23 KB (2,745 words) - 00:09, 21 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Alca (bird)
    Alca (bird) (category Alcidae)
    (2011). "An Alphataxonomic Revision of Extinct and Extant Razorbills (Aves, Alcidae): A Combined Morphometric and Phylogenetic Approach". Ornithological Monographs...
    1 KB (77 words) - 12:53, 1 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Penguin
    genetic study, the genus Pinguinus belongs in the family of the auks (Alcidae), within the order of the Charadriiformes. The birds currently known as...
    80 KB (7,976 words) - 21:05, 11 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Great auk
    Retrieved 14 May 2010. Smith, N (2015). "Evolution of body mass in the Pan-Alcidae (Aves, Charadriiformes): the effects of combining neontological and paleontological...
    71 KB (7,788 words) - 05:57, 4 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Palearctic realm
    families: the divers or loons (Gaviidae), grouse (Tetraoninae), auks (Alcidae), and waxwings (Bombycillidae). There are no endemic mammal orders in the...
    18 KB (1,284 words) - 23:49, 3 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Aethia
    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:...
    14 KB (1,308 words) - 18:51, 6 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Black guillemot
    guillemot or tystie (Cepphus grylle) is a medium-sized seabird of the Alcidae family, native throughout northern Atlantic coasts and eastern North American...
    14 KB (1,690 words) - 17:07, 16 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mancalla
    revision and phylogenetic analysis of the flightless Mancallinae (Aves, Pan-Alcidae)". ZooKeys (91): 1–116. Bibcode:2011ZooK...91....1S. doi:10.3897/zookeys...
    2 KB (67 words) - 05:18, 6 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Guillemot
    Guillemot (category Alcidae)
    Guillemot is the common name for several species of seabird in the Alcidae or auk family, part of the order Charadriiformes. In Europe, the term covers...
    7 KB (864 words) - 21:59, 14 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Avocet
    Alcidae Dromadidae Dromas Glareolidae Laridae Anous Chlidonias Chroicocephalus Creagrus †Feducciavis †Gaviota Gelochelidon Gygis Hydrocoloeus Hydroprogne...
    6 KB (530 words) - 12:52, 13 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of African animals extinct in the Holocene
    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...
    58 KB (2,502 words) - 00:04, 5 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Little auk
    Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Charadriiformes Family: Alcidae Genus: Alle Link, 1806 Species: A. alle Binomial name Alle alle (Linnaeus...
    19 KB (2,064 words) - 14:33, 14 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of North American animals extinct in the Holocene
    This is a list of North American animals extinct in the Holocene that covers extinctions from the Holocene epoch, a geologic epoch that began about 11...
    126 KB (5,727 words) - 22:28, 21 August 2024