The Tufted Puffin ( Fratercula cirrhata ) also known as Crested Puffin, is a relatively abundant medium-sized pelagic seabird in the auk ( Alcidae ) family found throughout the North Pacific Ocean.

The stupidity of the humans is countered by Sparky, a fast-talking penguin ( although the strip occasionally postulates he is actually an auk ) with a red visor, who provides much of the strip's political commentary.

In the Burmese script, the anusvara ( auk myit ) is represented as a dot underneath a nasalised final to indicate a creaky tone ( with a shortened vowel ).

Guillemots is the common name for several species of seabird in the auk family ( part of the order Charadriiformes ).

The Atlantic Puffin () is a seabird species in the auk family.

This makes the Razorbill have a distinctly long tail which is not common for an auk.

The Common Murre or Common Guillemot ( Uria aalge ) is a large auk.

*** Razorbill ( Alca torda ) One living species is relative great auk

The Little Auk, or Dovekie ( Alle alle ), is a small auk, the only member of the genus Alle.

This is the only Atlantic auk of its size, half the size of the Atlantic Puffin at 19 – 21 cm in length, with a 34 – 38 cm wingspan.

The Thick-billed Murre or Brünnich's Guillemot ( Uria lomvia ) is a bird in the auk family ( Alcidae ).

The Ancient Murrelet ( Synthliboramphus antiquus ) is a bird in the auk family.

This small auk species is black on the head, throat and rear neck, grey-backed, and has white underparts.

The Horned Puffin ( Fratercula corniculata ) is an auk, similar in appearance to the Atlantic Puffin ; this bird's bill is yellow at the base and red at the tip.

: aft uamuþ stonta runa þa n uarin faþi faþi aft faikion sunu sakum | | mukmini þat huaria ualrauba uain tua þa suaþ tualf sinum uain | | numna t ualraubu baþa somon o umisum | | monum ' þat sakum onart hua fur niu altum on urþi fiaru mi hraiþkutum auk tu mi on ub saka raiþ | | þiaurik hin þurmuþi stili flutna strontu hraiþmara siti nu karu o kuta sinum skialti ub fatlaþ skati marika þat sakum tualfta huar hist si kuna itu | | uituoki on kunuka tuai tiki suaþ o likia ' þat sakum þritaunta huari tuai tiki kunuka satin t siulunti fiakura uintur at fiakurum nabnum burn fiakurum bruþrum ' ualka fim ra = þulfs | | suni hraiþulfa fim rukulfs | | suni hoisla fim haruþs suni kunmunta fim ( b ) irna suni * nuk m --- ( m )-- alu --( k )( i ) ainhua-þ ... ... þ ... fti fra sagwm | | mogmeni ( þ ) ad hOa igOldga Oai gOldin d gOona hOsli sakum | | mukmini uaim si burin | | niþ troki uilin is þat knuo knati | | iatun uilin is þat ( n )( i )( t ) akum | | mukmini þur sibi uiauari ul niruþ

It is a member of the auk family.

The Marbled Murrelet is a small ( 25 cm ), chunky auk with a slender black bill.

The Parakeet Auklet is a small ( 23 cm ) auk with a short orange bill that is upturned to give the bird its curious fixed expression.

The Cassin's Auklet is a small ( 25 cm, 200 g ) nondescript auk.

It is an unusual member of the auk family, often nesting far inland in old growth forests.

Its walls are covered with paintings and engravings dating back to between 27, 000 and 19, 000 BC, depicting animals such as bison, ibex, and horses, as well as sea mammals such as seals, and at least one bird, the auk.

All three were in Shetland-winter individuals in February 1987 and November / December 2005, and a bird in an auk colony in summer 1989.

For example, if we consider the crown-birds ( i. e. all extant birds and the rest of the family tree back to their last common ancestor ), extinct side branches like the dodo or great auk are still descended from the last common ancestor of all living birds, so fall within the bird crown group.

Cepphus is a genus of seabirds in the auk family also referred to as true guillemots or, in North America, simply as guillemots.

The Whiskered Auklet, Aethia pygmaea, is a small seabird of the auk family.

A 2003 paper entitled " The Earliest North American Record of Auk ( Aves: Alcidae ) From the Late Eocene of Central Georgia " by Robert M. Chandler and Dennis Parmley of Georgia College and State University reports a Late Eocene, wing-propelled diving, auk from the Priabonain Stage of the Late Eocene.

It was the only modern species in the genus Pinguinus, a group of birds that formerly included one other species of flightless giant auk from the Atlantic Ocean region.

During winter, the auk lost these patches, instead developing a white band stretching between the eyes.

Instead, the auk was a powerful swimmer, a trait that it used in hunting.

Many Maritime Archaic people were buried with Great Auk bones, and one was buried covered in over 200 auk beaks, which are assumed to have been part of a cloak made of their skins.

Early European explorers to the Americas used the auk as a convenient food source or as fishing bait, reducing its numbers.

The auk appeared chubby due to a thick layer of fat necessary for warmth.

During winter the auk molted and lost this eye patch, which was replaced with a wide white band and a gray line of feathers which stretched from the eye to the ear.

A captive auk was observed making a gurgling noise when anxious.

Polar bears preyed on nesting colonies of the auk.

These colonies were extremely crowded and dense, with some estimates stating that there was a nesting auk for every of land.

In years when there was a shortage of food, the auk did not breed.

In 1553, the auk received its first official protection, and in 1794 Great Britain banned the killing of this species for its feathers.

On the North American side, eider down was initially preferred, but once the eiders were nearly driven to extinction in the 1770s, down collectors switched to the auk at the same time that hunting for food, fishing bait, and oil decreased.

Believing that the auk was a witch and the cause of the storm, they then killed it by beating it with a stick.

Museums, desiring the skins of the auk for preservation and display, quickly began collecting birds from the colony.

For example, the razorbill ( an Atlantic auk ) requires 64 % more energy to fly than a petrel of equivalent size.

They spoke of Bar Harbor as Man-es-ayd ' ik (" clam-gathering place ") or Ah-bays ' auk (" clambake place "), leaving great piles of shells as evidence of this abundance.