| Crested auklets have a conspicuous black forehead-crest, white auricular plumes, an orange bill with accessory plates, and a citruslike plumage odor. |
| Lazaria National Wildlife Refuge, breeding grounds for thousands of sea birds such as puffins, auklets and murres. |
| However, several unusual attributes of crested auklets, Aethia cristatella, warranted further investigation. |
| The removal of these predators has benefitted many other bird species on the islands, including puffins, murres, and auklets. |
| That fits nicely with Hagelin's observations that courting auklets poke their beaks into the ruffs around each other's necks. |
| Crested Auklets have short stubby bodies with relatively long slender wings. |
