Crested auklets have a conspicuous black forehead-crest, white auricular plumes, an orange bill with accessory plates, and a citruslike plumage odor. |
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. |
Year-round bird species include murres, auklets, kittiwakes, puffins, guillemots, Kittlitz's murrelet, and gulls. |
Byrd was recognized for his work to protect marine species of coastal Alaska, such as auklets, puffins, storm petrels and other seabirds. |
Crested and whiskered auklets nest in hollows on rocky islands in the remote northern Pacific Ocean. |