#0849 · 🐦 birds

Dovekie

🇳🇱 Kleine Alk ·Alle alle

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0
2. © David McCorquodale · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Scott Bowers · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Mark Dennis · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0
6. © Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0
7. © Phil Benstead · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Allan Hopkins · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
9. © Blake Maybank · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
10. © Joanne Muis Redwood · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The little auk or dovekie ( Alle alle ) is a small auk, the only member of the genus Alle . Alle is the Sami name of the long-tailed duck; it is onomatopoeic and imitates the call of the drake duck. Linnaeus was not particularly familiar with the winter plumages of either the auk or the duck, and appears to have confused the two species.

base stats

NL sightings 11iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 2,079iNaturalist observations
weight 28 gadult, up to
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).