Crested Auklet
Aethia cristatella(Pallas, PS, 1769)
English (US) Crested Auklet
The Crested Auklet (Aethia cristatella) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Alcidae (Auks, Puffins, and Murres) in the order Charadriiformes.
Range: breeds North Pacific coasts and islands, patchily from eastern Chukotka, Sakhalin, Kuril, and Commander islands (eastern Russia), Bering Sea and Aleutian islands; winters offshore to Hokkaido and northern Honshu (northern Japan) and Gulf of AlaskaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Aethia cristatella
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Crested Auklet
- Described by
- (Pallas, PS, 1769)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Alca cristatella
- Described by
- (Pallas, PS, 1769)
- Type locality
- Hokkaido to Kamchatka.
- Original description
- Spicilegia zoologica, quibus novae imprimis et obscurae animalium species iconibus, descriptionibus atque commentariis illustrantur 1 fasc.5 p.18 pl.3,5 fig.7,8,9
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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