- Auks are the common name for web-footed sea
birds in the auk and puffin family.
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- The razor-billed auk is black and white with
a short tail and short wings.
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- Auks are excellent swimmers and divers and
spend most of the year in the open water of the northern Atlantic
Ocean, migrating south in winter.
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- There are 22 species of Auks, including the
razorbills and puffins.
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- Auks nest in colonies of hundreds even thousands
of birds off cliff tops and rocks.
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- Males and females look alike, but there are
some seasonal plumage changes.
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- In their annual moult, most species lose
all the flight feathers at once and a temporarily flightless.
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