auks in English

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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. Auks synonyms, Auks pronunciation, Auks translation, English dictionary definition of Auks

2. Auks – penguins of the north

3. Auks are restricted to northern waters

4. Auks: birds of the family Alcidae

5. Auks est finalement une histoire de contrastes

6. Kerberos credential support for batch environments - hautreux/Auks

7. Auks are penguinlike seabirds found in the Northern Hemisphere

8. Great Auks belonged to the family Alcidae (order Charadriiformes).

9. 22 Two auks, blinking, waddled foolishly across the ledge.

10. Two auks, blinking, waddled foolishly across the ledge.

11. Although great Auks could not fly, the living species can

12. The nearest living relatives are the razor-billed Auks.

13. "Alcae" - Alcids (Auks, Murres, and Puffins) Wiki ToL EoL

14. Auks were perhaps more troubling historically before this audio-visual domestication

15. Auks; Auks These are small to medium-sized seabirds with long, barrel-shaped bodies, short tails, very small wings and short legs set far back on the body

16. Better divers than fliers Like all auks, rhinoceros Auklets are diving birds.

17. Utterly defenseless, great Auks were killed by rapacious hunters for food and bait

18. What does Alcae mean? A taxonomic suborder within the order Charadriiformes — the auks

19. Anthropologists note how in coastal communities around the North Atlantic Auks were mysterious

20. Of, pertaining, or belonging to the family Alcidae, comprising the auks, murres, puffins, etc.

21. The Auks or Family Alcidae (Puffins, Guillemots & Murres) Auks are a medium-sized, generally black and white family of birds which are not well-known to people outside of the bird watching and naturalist community

22. In spring those cliffs are alive with auks and gulls, and my favourite bird, the gannet.

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

24. The Alcidae include familiar seabirds such as razorbills, who are the closest relatives to great Auks, as well

25. Auks are wholly dependent upon the sea for their food, which consists of fish, crustaceans, mollusks, and plankton

26. Auks have long bodies, short tails, small wings and short legs that set far back on the body

27. Auklet definition: any of various small auks of the genera Aethia and Ptychoramphus Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

28. The true Auks are black and white and stand erect on land, as do the penguins of the Antarctic

29. Alcae definition is - a suborder of Charadriiformes coextensive with the family Alcidae and including the auks, murres, and puffins.

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

31. Auks are medium-sized seabirds that mostly occur in the in the Northern Hemisphere (north of the north of its equator).

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

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

34. They are superficially similar to the unrelated penguins; however in contrast to penguins, the modern Auks are able to fly (with the

35. The Auks is part of Oxford's multi-volume Bird Families of the World, a new series of handbooks for professional scientists and amateur ornithologists

36. (2017) noted that although Auks has many features in common with Kabuki syndrome (see 147920), the Auks features of ridged metopic sutures, long faces, full cheeks, open mouths, prominent midline grooves of the tongue, and high pain tolerance are rarely seen in Kabuki syndrome and could be helpful in differential diagnosis.

37. Great Auks belonged to the Alcid family of short-legged, web-footed birds that have short wings, other members being murres and puffins.

38. Auks is an utility designed to ease kerberos V credential support addition to non-interactive applications, like batch systems (LSF,Torque,) or resource managers (Slurm,)

39. Auklet definition, any of several small auks of the coasts of the North Pacific, as Aethia cristatella(crested Auklet ), having a crest of recurved plumes

40. Charadriiform - Charadriiform - Auks (suborder Alcae): Alcids breed in island colonies along Arctic and north temperate seacoasts, with the exception of a few murrelets that breed inland on mountains

41. Birds of the Northeast: Gulls to Great Auks features paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, photographs, and natural history specimens from the early 19th century through the present day

42. Wings of the Sea is a series of informative and humorous animated shorts about Alcids, or auks — incredible diving seabirds most people don’t know nearly enough about.

43. Alcids (or auks) fill a similar ecological niche in the northern hemisphere as penguins do in the southern hemisphere, except Alcids can fly — and can fly long distances

44. ***** Led by David Kunstatter, Auks is a project born mid-2013 that draws on both the new-wave sound of the '80s and the influence of the dark and sweaty rock corners of Montreal.