Auks (Alcidae)

Least Auklet (Aethia pusilla) - HBW 3, p. 719

French: Starique minuscule German: Zwergalk Spanish: Mérgulo Mínimo
Other common names: Knob-billed Auklet

Taxonomy: Uria pusilla Pallas, 1811, Kamchatka.
Monotypic.

Distribution: Chukotskiy Peninsula S to Sea of Okhotsk (Yamskie Is) and C Kuril Is, and W Alaska from Diomede Is and Cape Lisburne S to Aleutians and E to NW Gulf of Alaska (Sumigan and Semidi Is). Winters at sea and along coasts in Bering Sea, often near breeding areas, from N limits of open water S to Gulf of Alaska and N Japan (Hokkaido).