Whiskered Auklet
Aethia pygmaea(Gmelin, JF, 1789)
English (US) Whiskered Auklet
The Whiskered Auklet (Aethia pygmaea) 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: sedentary, North Pacific coasts and islands patchily from Sea of Okhotsk, Kuril, and Commander islands (eastern Russia) and Aleutian IslandsRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Aethia pygmaea
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Whiskered Auklet
- Described by
- (Gmelin, JF, 1789)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Alca pygmaea
- Described by
- (Gmelin, JF, 1789)
- Type locality
- Islands in Bering Sea.
- Original description
- Systema Naturae. Editio decima tertia, aucta, reformata. Cura Jo. Frid. Gmelin (etc.). Tomus I. Pars II 1 pt2 p.555
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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