Crested Auklet

Taxonomy

Order

Charadriiformes

Family

Alcidae

Genus

Aethia

eBird Code

creauk

Distribution

breeds North Pacific coasts and islands, patchily from eastern Chukotka, Sakhalin, Kuril, and Commander islands (eastern Russia), Bering Sea and Aleutian islands; winters offshore to Hokkaido and northern Honshu (northern Japan) and Gulf of Alaska