Charadriiformes / Alcidae / Alle

Little Auk

Alle alle

IUCN: Least Concern

Data Sources

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

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.

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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
Alle alle polaris

breeds Frans Josef Land (northwestern Russia) eastward to St. Lawrence Island (Bering Sea); winters to Barents Sea

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

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.