Parakeet Auklet
Aethia psittacula(Pallas, PS, 1769)
English (US) Parakeet Auklet
The Parakeet Auklet (Aethia psittacula) 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, and Gulf of Alaska; winters offshore in North Pacific, reaching northern Sea of Japan and western British Columbia (southwestern Canada)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Aethia psittacula
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Parakeet Auklet
- Described by
- (Pallas, PS, 1769)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Alca psittacula
- Described by
- (Pallas, PS, 1769)
- Type locality
- Kamchatka and islands toward Japan and North America.
- Original description
- Spicilegia zoologica, quibus novae imprimis et obscurae animalium species iconibus, descriptionibus atque commentariis illustrantur 1 fasc.5 p.13 pl.2,5 fig.4,5,6
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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