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English Little Auk
Scientific (Alle alle alle)
Order CHARADRIIFORMES
Family (Latin) Alcidae
Family (English) Auks
Other name(s) Dovekie
Breeding Regions NA, PAL
Breeding Range Subregions coasts of high Arctic from ne Canada to nw of Russia; more rarely to Bering Strait
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
Countries (BETA)map Afghanistan,Albania,Algeria,Angola,Argentina,Armenia,Australia,Austria,Azerbaijan,Belarus, Belgium,Belize,Benin,Bermuda,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Botswana,British Virgin Islands,Bulgaria,Burkina Faso,Burundi, Cameroon,Canada,Chad,China,Colombia,Congo,Costa Rica,Croatia,Cyprus,Czech Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo,Denmark,Djibouti,Dominican Republic,Ecuador - mainland,Egypt,El Salvador,Equatorial Guinea,Eritrea,Estonia, Ethiopia,Finland,France,French Guiana,Gabon,Gambia,Georgia,Germany,Ghana,Gibraltar, Greece,Guatemala,Guinea,Guinea-Bissau,Guyana,Haiti,Honduras,Hungary,India - mainland,Iran, Iraq,Ireland,Israel,Italy,Ivory Coast,Jamaica,Japan,Jordan,Kazakhstan,Kenya, Kyrgyzstan,Latvia,Lebanon,Liberia,Libya,Liechtenstein,Lithuania,Luxembourg,Macedonia,Madagascar, Mali,Malta,Mauritania,Mexico,Moldova,Mongolia,Montenegro,Morocco,Namibia,Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles,Nicaragua,Niger,Nigeria,Norway,Panama,Peru,Poland,Portugal,Puerto Rico, Romania,Russia,Rwanda,Saudi Arabia,Senegal,Serbia,Sierra Leone,Slovakia,Slovenia,Somalia, South Africa,Spain,Sri Lanka,Suriname,Sweden,Switzerland,Syria,Taiwan,Tajikistan,Togo, Trinidad and Tobago,Tunisia,Turkey,Turkmenistan,Uganda,Ukraine,United Kingdom,United States - mainland,Uruguay,Uzbekistan, Venezuela,Western Sahara,Yemen,
IOC 11.2 Subspecies Monotypic
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by (Linnaeus, 1758)
German Krabbentaucher
French Mergule nain
Chinese 黑头海雀
Japanese ヒメウミスズメ
Russian Люрик
Spanish Mérgulo atlántico
Portuguese torda-miúda-do-atlântico
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Breeding Range Codes
AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN Antarctica
AO Atlantic Ocean
AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
EU Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO Indian Ocean
LA Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO Northern oceans
OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)