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What are auks?

What are auks? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. plural of auk
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Some flightless birds, such as living penguins, puffins, and rails, and the extinct auks and phororhacoids, are classified in the Neognathae along with most flying birds.
On steep mountainsides breed large colonies of auks, puffins, skuas, and kittiwakes.
As have others, Gaskell uses comparative studies of Razorbills and other alcids to speculate about the behavioral ecology of Great Auks.
Like many auks, puffins eat both fish and zooplankton, but feed their chicks primarily with small marine fish several times a day.
I thought again of little auks and the children who cried for them.
Morphologically, the diving petrels resemble northern auks much more than they resemble other procellariiform birds.

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