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little auk
Rotche Rotche, n. (Zo["o]l.) A very small arctic sea bird (Mergulus alle, or Alle alle) common on both coasts of the Atlantic in winter; -- called also little auk, dovekie, rotch, rotchie, and sea dove.

Meaning of little auk from wikipedia

- The little auk (Europe) or dovekie (North America) Alle alle is a small auk, the only member of the genus Alle. Alle is the Sami name of the long-tailed...
- "guillemots" in Europe, and the species called little auk in Europe is referred to as dovekie in North America. The word "auk" /ɔːk/ is derived from Icelandic álka...
- The great auk (Pinguinus impennis), also known as the penguin or garefowl, is a species of flightless alcid that first appeared around 400,000 years ago...
- is a traditional wintertime Inuit food from Greenland that is made of little auks (Alle alle), a type of seabird, fermented in a seal skin. Making kiviak...
- Alcidae, the auks. It is the closest living relative of the extinct great auk (Pinguinus impennis). Historically, it has also been known as "auk", "razor-billed...
- two living species of Uria, together with the razorbill, little auk, and the extinct great auk, make up the tribe Alcini. They have distinctly white bellies...
- common eider, long-tailed duck, Brunnich's guillemot, black guillemot, little auk, puffin, fulmar, herring gull, glaucous gull, great black-backed gull...
- dream world." Allan Hunter from the Daily Express called it "A delicate little heartwarmer of a film." Ignatiy Vishnevetsky of the Chicago Sun-Times panned...
- about 20 million individuals during late summer. The most common are: little auk, northern fulmar, thick-billed murre, and black-legged kittiwake. Sixteen...
- cliffs around it function as breeding grounds for dovekie (UK English: little auk) (Alle alle) and the thick-billed murre (UK English: Brünnich's guillemot)...