Small dark gray seabird with a round head. With close views note pale eye, white crescent above the eye, and pale spot at the base of the bill.
Small dark gray seabird that shows a thin whitish stripe on the underwing in flight.
Small, chunky dark gray seabird with light gray flanks.
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A small but rotund seabird with rounded head, very short neck, short, stubby wings, short but heavy bill, and very short tail.
Larger than a Red Phalarope, smaller than a Rhinoceros Auklet.
robin-sizedTwo very similar subspecies of Cassin’s Auklet differ mostly in size: the larger aleuticus nests from Alaska to California (and apparently south into Mexico), and the smaller australis nests only in western Mexico, on islands of the Baja California Peninsula.
Auks, Murres, and Puffins(Order: Charadriiformes, Family: Alcidae)
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