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OverviewAI-generated
The Little Auk, also referred to as the dovekie, is a species within the family Alcidae. Its scientific name is *Alle alle*, and it belongs to the order Charadriiformes, class Aves, and phylum Chordata. The taxon was described by Linnaeus in 1758 and is currently accepted in biological records. Other common names for this bird include Haftyrðill, Alkekonge, and Люрик.
This marine species has a wingspan of 0.32 and a mass of 28. The IUCN Red List assessed the Little Auk as Least Concern in 2018.
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Species
Least Concerndovekie
Species
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderCharadriiformes
- FamilyAlcidae
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Encyclopedic overview
The little auk (Europe) or dovekie (North America) (Alle alle) is a small auk, the only member of the genus Alle. It breeds in huge numbers on islands in the high Arctic of the North Atlantic Ocean. There are two subspecies; A. a. alle breeds in Greenland, Novaya Zemlya and Svalbard; and A. a. polaris on Franz Josef Land. A small number of individuals also breed on Little Diomede Island in the Bering Strait, with additional breeding individuals thought to occur on King Island, St. Lawrence Island, St. Matthew Island and the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea. It also formerly bred on Grímsey just north of Iceland, but is extinct there now. In winter, they disperse widely across the Arctic and North Atlantic Oceans, with the largest numbers in the Arctic close to the pack ice edge, and smaller numbers south to northern Great Britain in the eastern Atlantic, and Nova Scotia in the western Atlantic.
Taxonomy
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