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. |