Parakeet Auklet

Taxonomy

Order

Charadriiformes

Family

Alcidae

Genus

Aethia

eBird Code

parauk

Distribution

breeds North Pacific coasts and islands, patchily from eastern Chukotka, Sakhalin, Kuril, and Commander islands (eastern Russia), Bering Sea and Aleutian islands, and Gulf of Alaska; winters offshore in North Pacific, reaching northern Sea of Japan and western British Columbia (southwestern Canada)