Dovekie - Little Auk
by Art MacKay
Title
Dovekie - Little Auk
Artist
Art MacKay
Medium
Digital Art - Ink, Acrylic, Digital And More.
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The Little Auk, or Dovekie (Alle alle), is a tiny auk that breeds on islands in the high Arctic. There are two subspecies: A. a. alle breeds in Greenland, Iceland, Novaya Zemlya and Spitsbergen, and B. a. polaris on Franz Josef Land.
Their breeding habitat is coastal mountainsides, where they have huge colonies. They nest in crevices or beneath large rocks, usually laying just one egg. They move south in winter into northern areas of the north Atlantic. Late autumn storms may carry them south of their
normal wintering areas
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June 22nd, 2022
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