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Charadriiformes / Alcidae / Alle

Little Auk

Alle alle

IUCN: Least Concern

Taxonomy

Order
Charadriiformes
Family
Alcidae
Genus
Alle

Vocalizations

Valentin Moser · CC_BY_4_0
steve b · CC0_1_0

Subspecies (2)

  • Alle alle alle

    breeds Baffin Island (Arctic northeastern Canada), Greenland, northern Iceland and Jan Mayen, Svalbard, and Novaya Zemlya (northwestern Russia); winters southward in Gulf Stream to North Carolina, and to northern British Isles and North Sea

Data Sources

Bird images and sounds sourced from GBIF, contributed by citizen scientists worldwide under Creative Commons licenses.

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.