Dovekie Alle alle
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Length: 6.75 inches
Sexes similar
Immature like basic-plumaged adult
Very small alcid that dives for food from water surface
Short, dark bill
White edges to scapulars ...
Dovekie
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
see auk.
More on Dovekie
Auk - common name for a member of the family Alcidae swimming and diving birds of the N Atlantic and Pacific, which includes the guillemots and puffins.
Dovekie Winter - The winter Dovekie is duller with a white throat, chin, and side of neck, with a dark neck band.
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Dovekies are found throughout the far north Atlantic, as far east as Siberia. A few nest in isolated locations on eastern Canadian Arctic islands. Many feed in the waters north and north-east of Baffin Island, Nunavut.
Mr. William Brewster (1906) writes (about Dovekies) that the stomachs of several killed on Fresh Pond, Cambridge, Massachusetts, were "filled with the remains of young alewives, " which abounded in the pond.
Dovekies are notoriously liable to being driven, often in large numbers, far outside their normal winter range by storms; one such bird reached Cuba! ...
Dovekie (Auks-Family: Alcidae): USGS ... New England Seabirds
Doves
Dowitchers ...
Dovekie, Arctic Auklet, Dovekie, Sea Dove
Bird Family :
Alcidae - Auks, dovekie, murres, guillemots, auklets, murrelets & puffins ...
Dovekie, Alle alle
[edit] Pigeons and Doves
Order: Columbiformes Family: Columbidae ...
Dovekie Alle alle: Jodrey State Fish Pier, Gloucester Harbor, MA, 29 Jan
Common Murre Uria aalge: Protection Island, WA, 06 Aug
Thick-billed Murre Uria lomvia: Jodrey State Fish Pier, Gloucester Harbor, MA, 29 Jan ...
The Little Auk, also known as the "Dovekie", is a small planktivorous alcid that breeds only in the Arctic (160 g). They arrive at breeding sites in Thule District in mid-May and leave mid-August.
Auk, Little aka Dovekie Alle Alle Found: Artic region including North America
Photographed by: 1) MPF 2) Ttphoto 3) Alastair Rae
Genus Cepphus ...
Various birds are also common which include pheasants, grouse, quail, dove, domestic poultry, alcids (like dovekie), and various water foul often including ducks, grebes and even medium sized geese.
COMMON SEA-DOVE.--LITTLE GUILLEMOT.
[Dovekie.]
MERGULUS ALLE, Linn.
[Alle alle.] ...
It will pursue adult plovers and dovekies, often catching and swallowing them in mid-air. In other season, it robs gulls and diving ducks of their catches, searches for carrion and eats garbage at landfill sites.
Several species have different names in Europe and North America. The guillemots of Europe are murres in North America, if they occur in both continents, and the Little Auk becomes the Dovekie.
It usually stayed very close to shore (within 10 feet) as it swam up and down the shore, and could even be seen underwater when it dived to chase fish. There were also many Razorbills and even a Dovekie in the area! ...
 See also: Shearwater, Puffin, Petrel, Gannet, Grebe
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