auklet

American  

[awk-lit] / ˈɔk lɪt /

noun

1. any of several small auks of the coasts of the North Pacific, as Aethia cristatella crested auklet, having a crest of recurved plumes.

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auklet British  

/ ˈɔːklɪt /

noun

1. any of various small auks of the genera Aethia and Ptychoramphus

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Etymology

Origin of auklet

First recorded in 1885–90; auk + -let

Example Sentences

In late 2014, thousands of starved Cassin's auklet seabirds began to wash ashore in Washington and Oregon.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 31, 2019

From the Space Needle to the rhinoceros auklet — the symbols of our region’s wild and civilized places.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 8, 2016

Then a Cassin’s auklet flitted by along the surface of the slate-gray sea, and I perked up.

From New York Times • May 19, 2016

Most finders promptly called or hurried to the Bronx Zoo, learned the fallen strangers were little auks, cousins of the least auklet and the extinct great auk.

From Time Magazine Archive

The auklet, the puffin and the kingfishers burrow into the friendly and solid earth.

From The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations by Hornaday, William Temple