• Skip to Content
  • Skip to Main Navigation
  • Skip to Local Navigation
  • Skip to Search
  • Skip to Sitemap
  • Skip to Footer
Help develop a Bird ID tool!

Cassin's Auklet

Ptychoramphus aleuticus ORDER: CHARADRIIFORMES FAMILY: ALCIDAE

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

  • Related Species
  • Go to:

A small, dark, gregarious seabird, the Cassin's Auklet can be found feeding in flocks and nesting in colonies from Alaska to Mexico.

Get BNA: the definitive resource for North American birds
Donate to Bird Cams

Calls

  • Calls
    Recorded by Thomas G. Sander
    • Courtesy of Macaulay Library
    © Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Generally silent at sea. Makes loud creaking call at colony.

Get BNA: the definitive resource for North American birds
Search the Macaulay Library online archive for more sounds and videos