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| image = Aethia cristatella.jpg
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Chordata
| classis = Aves
| ordo = Charadriiformes
| familia = Alcidae
| genus = Aethia
| species = A. cristatella
| binomial = Aethia cristatella
| binomial_authority = (Pallas, 1769)
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The Crested Auklet (Aethia cristatella) is a small seabird of the family Alcidae which nests in huge colonies (>1 million individuals) in the Bering Sea and Sea of Okhotsk. They often breed in mixed-species colonies with Least Auklets, their smaller congener.
The Crested Auklet is recognized primarily by two characters in the breeding season. The first is its 'crest', a group of bristle feathers located above its eye on the top of its head. The second is a social odor that the auklets produce during the breeding season, which has been described as smelling like tangerines.
Crested Auklets are [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/planktivore planktivores]. Their diet consists mainly of krill, but they are also known to eat copepods, pteropods (such as Limacina), amphipods and larval fishes. Their main predators are Herring Gulls and other gulls, Arctic Fox and ravens, but they have been reported in the stomachs of halibut caught on St. Lawrence Island.
References
"National Geographic" Field Guide to the Birds of North America ISBN 0-7922-6877-6
Seabirds, an Identification Guide by Peter Harrison, (1983) ISBN 0-7470-1410-8
Handbook of the Birds of the World Vol 3, Josep del Hoyo editor, ISBN 84-87334-20-2
"National Audubon Society" The Sibley Guide to Birds, by David Allen Sibley, ISBN 0-679-45122-6
External links
[http://www.tsuru-bird.net/a_species/auklet_crested Crested Auklet Images] http://tsuru-bird.net/image.htm Copyright 2009 - Monte M. Taylor
Category:Aethia
Crested Auklet
Category:Auklets
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es:Aethia cristatella
eo:Tufaŭko
fr:Starique cristatelle
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is:Toppklumba
it:Aethia cristatella
ja:エトロフウミスズメ
fi:Töyhtökiislanen
uk:Велика конюга
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