Auks (Alcidae)

Crested Auklet (Aethia cristatella) - HBW 3, p. 718

French: Starique cristatelle German: Schopfalk Spanish: Mérgulo Empenachado

Taxonomy: Alca cristatella Pallas, 1769, Hokkaido to Kamchatka.
Monotypic.

Distribution: Chukotskiy Peninsula S through Diomede Is to N Sea of Okhotsk, Sakhalin and Kuril Is, and W Alaska S through St Lawrence I, St Matthew I and Pribilofs to Aleutians E to Shumagin Is. Winters at sea and along coasts in Bering Sea, often close to breeding areas where open water exists, S to Gulf of Alaska and N Japan; N and S limits poorly known.