Crested auklet / Schopfalk (Aethia cristatella)

Wikipedia: Crested auklet Source: WIKIPEDIA 1200px-Aethia_cristatella.jpg

Observations

🔍 No documented observation

Description

Classification: Genus Aethia (Aethia); Family Alcidae (Alcidae)
General: The crested auklet (Aethia cristatella) 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. [more]