Crested Auklet
Aethia cristatella
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Birds
The crested auklet is a small seabird of the family Alcidae, distributed throughout the northern Pacific and the Bering Sea. The species feeds by diving in deep waters, eating krill and a variety of small marine animals. It nests in dense colonies of up to 1 million individuals in the Bering Sea and the Sea of Okhotsk. It often breeds in mixed-species colonies with the least auklet, a smaller congener.
Classification
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Alcidae
- Genus
- Aethia