An auk is a bird of the family Alcidae in the order Charadriiformes.

The current paucity of auks in the Atlantic (6 species), compared to the Pacific (19 20 species) is considered to be because of extinctions to the Atlantic auks the fossil record shows there were many more species in the Atlantic during the Pliocene.

Tux is an Antarctic bird.

Pied avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta).

There's a flying turkey under a tree.

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Then again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, a flying scroll.

Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll.

In Greece, there are nearly 1000 birds.

The length is , wingspan is and weight is .

Every Japanese kid learns how to fold that crane.

They are the largest flying land birds in the Western Hemisphere.

However, some of them are now globally extinct, like the Great Auk ( Pinguinus impennis ), the European Wild Horse ( Equus ferus ) and the Aurochs ( Bos primigenius primigenius ).

I'm also interested in birds. And I'm familiar with this fellow. This is a rather special bird.

There was a bird that people liked on the East Coast called the heath hen.

I discovered a couple hummingbirds that were caught in a shed near my home.

E Squawks SW Yeah. It can get a bird like Einstein frustrated.

The white wagtail ( Motacilla alba , ) is Latvia's national bird.

The food is typical of long legged wading birds, and the most important is amphibians.

Cuckoos Order CuculiformesFamily CuculidaeThe family Cuculidae includes cuckoos, roadrunners and anis.

Incredible. This is the most extraordinary migration of any bird of prey. A quite incredible migration.

Tweet bird Image by Id iom and used under a CC BY NC 2.0 Creative Commons license.

From the ashes the phoenix is reborn, and so is the Natalia Ponce de León Foundation NoMoreAcid NPDLFoundation.

In Belgium and the Netherlands, around 100 birds were present in the summer of 2007.

And when I strap just these little harnesses, this little wing, I really have the feeling of being a bird.

This is a UFO shot from my house in Altadena, California, looking down over Pasadena.

If you replace those bits with passenger pigeon bits, you've got the extinct bird back, cooing at you.

The king vulture ( Sarcoramphus papa ) is a large bird found in Central and South America.

Every world has an alien, and every alien world has a flying saucer, and they move about with great speed. Aliens.

When I was in the third grade, I wrote a book for the first time, The Owl Who Thought He Was The Best Flyer.

He himself gallops in on a flying horse almost half way through the tortuous proceedings.

The bird thus appears to have originally been intended to be an eagle, but is now officially a cormorant.

About 350,000 to 27 million birds are estimated to be killed on European roads each year.

That is one big peanut. Since Einstein is a bird, she's very interested in things that fly.

One thing, he put a bird in there, and he pumped all the air out, and the bird died. So he said, hmm ...

The first obstacle to a phoenix miracle is that governments remain in austerity mode.

The yellow billed cardinal ( Paroaria capitata ) is a bird species in the tanager family (Thraupidae).

The speed at which small fish (which along with krill are the auk's principal food items) can swim doubles as the temperature increases from 5 to 15 C, with no corresponding increase in speed for the bird.

like the hummingbird, has a very high metabolism, which means it requires a lot of energy.

This was the first Central American flag to use the quetzal as a symbol since 1871, it has been on the present flag of Guatemala.

It is a common and familiar bird throughout much of its range, living in most habitats apart from thick forest.

The osprey is a medium large raptor which is a specialist fish eater with a worldwide distribution.

But this the current version of it, is a flying airship that is about 35 meters in diameter, about 110 feet in diameter.

At the end of my first year in school, in the summer of that year, I discovered a couple hummingbirds that were caught in a shed near my home.

Sunlight sparkles as herons dart from the reeds to spear fish, while women in long wooden boats glide through the water.