auk in English

noun
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a short-winged diving seabird found in northern oceans, typically with a black head and black and white underparts.
The long Norwegian coast is home to millions of seabirds, including a large number of auks and kittiwakes, which are found in the northern half of the country.

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1. Ornithology A bird of the auk family (Alcidae); an auk

2. Auk definition: An Auk is a seabird with a heavy body and short tail

3. The great Auk (pinguinus impennis) is a species of flightless alcid that became extinct in the mid-19th century - great Auk stock illustrations Study of a Great Auk

4. Definition of Auk in the Definitions.net dictionary

5. Synonyms for Auk in Free Thesaurus

6. 15 words related to auk: sea bird, seabird, seafowl, Alcidae, family Alcidae, auklet, Alca torda, razorbill, razor-billed auk, dovekie, little auk, Plautus alle

7. 15 words related to Auk: sea bird, seabird, seafowl, Alcidae, family Alcidae, Auklet, Alca torda, razorbill, razor-billed Auk, dovekie, little Auk, Plautus alle

8. Noun any of various diving birds of the family Alcidae of northern oceans having a heavy body, short tail, narrow wings, and a black-and-white plumage: order CharadriiformesSee also great Auk, razorbill Auk little Auk or dovekie a small short-billed Auk, Plautus alle, abundant in Arctic regions Word Origin for Auk

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10. The little Auk is the smallest of the Auk seabirds, reaching just 7 inches in length at maturity

11. What does Auk mean? Information and translations of Auk in the most comprehensive dictionary definitions resource on the web.

12. Records show the Great Auk became extinct in 1844

13. More information: A new species of Antbird (Passeriformes: Thamnophilidae) from the Cordillera Azul, San Martín, Peru, Auk DOI: 10.1642/AUK-17-97.1

14. 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 murrelets.The word auk / ɔː k / is derived from Icelandic álka, from Old Norse alka (“auk”), from Proto-Germanic *alkǭ (“sea-bird, auk”).

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16. This species was the only Auk that was flightless

17. The little Auk is a small seabird, the size of a starling

18. Where had our gull and our auk spent the summer?

19. Examples of Auk in a Sentence Recent Examples on the Web But around the early 16th century, when European seaman discovered the large Auk populations of …

20. There are 22 species of Auks, including the Atlantic puffin, the common murre, the dovekie or lesser auk, and the extinct great auk.

21. The field is named after the Auk, a family of sea birds.

22. Much the smallest and shortest-billed auk, also the smallest diving seabird.

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24. Great Auk, (Pinguinus impennis), also called garefowl, flightless seabird extinct since 1844

25. The Auk 1: 105; Batchelder CF (1937) An account of the Nuttall Ornithological Club 1873 To 1919

26. Birds of the Auk family, often called alcids, range in length from about 15 to 40 cm (6 to 16 inches), though the great Auk was about 75 cm (30 inches) long

27. T he Auk is an Iain Oughtred design that dates back to 1984

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29. The Auk 101: 1-12; Cory CB (1880-1883) Beautiful and Curious Birds of the

30. Guillemot nesting in the cliffs at heimaey island, iceland - great Auk stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

31. The least sociable auk, breeding in very loose colonies, in crevices of cliffs and rocks.

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33. The Great Auk, although not a penguin, is often called the "penguin of the north"

34. As one of the foremost journals in ornithology, The Auk publishes innovative empirical and theoretical findings.

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36. The last colony of Great Auks lived on Geirfuglasker (the "Great Auk Rock") off Iceland

37. The Auk ‘A’ (Alpha) platform is an integrated drilling, production and living quarters facility supported on an eight leg jacket structure

38. Auk uses a pipeline-based workflow for defining filters, which can then be compiled into an AWK script

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40. In August 2013 several people died in Siorapaluk from eating kiviak that was made from eider rather than auk.

41. Alcidae, bird family, order Charadriiformes, which includes the birds known as auk, auklet, dovekie, guillemot, murre, murrelet, and puffin (qq.v.).

42. 21 Victims have ranged from the great auk and the lynx to the humble blue stag beetle and Davall's sedge.

43. 12 At about 75 centimetres or 30-34 inches, the flightless Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) was the largest of the auks .

44. The Auk: Ornithological Advances advances the fundamental scientific knowledge of birds and of broad biological concepts through studies of bird species.

45. Burgs’ teaching style is strongly influenced by his three principal teachers, Dodrupchen Rinpoche, the Venerable Pa-Auk Tawya Sayadaw and Merta Ada

46. Believing that the Auk was a witch and the cause of the storm, they then killed it by beating it with a stick

47. Beginning this year (2021), our journals will be published under the new titles Ornithology for The Auk and Ornithological Applications for The Condor

48. The most numerous birds on Svalbard are Auks, represented by the little auk, brünnich’s guillemot, black guillemot and the Atlantic puffin

49. In 2009, The Auk was honored as one of the 100 most influential journals of biology and medicine over the past 100 years

50. Description: The Auk: Ornithological Advances aims to advance fundamental scientific knowledge by increasing the basic knowledge of bird species, both living and extinct, and the knowledge of broad biological concepts through studies of bird species.The Auk has been published continuously since 1884 and was recently recognized as one of the 100 most influential journals of biology and medicine