"The little auk, also known as the dovekie, emerges as a sentinel species in monitoring Arctic environmental shifts," says Dr. Anders Mosbech, co-author from Aarhus University.

“The little auk, also known as the dovekie, emerges as a sentinel species in monitoring Arctic environmental shifts,” says Dr. Anders Mosbech, co-author from Aarhus University.

They title their paper, Small birds, big effects: the little auk (Alle alle) transforms high Arctic ecosystems, publishing in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. When you migrate, you move energy ...

After attracting more than 15,000 growers across 10 countries since its 2021 launch, the Auk indoor garden is now on its way to the US for the promise of year-round herbs, greens and tomatoes ...

The little auk — the most common seabird along the Arctic coasts of Greenland and Spitzbergen — showed no sign of weight loss or reproductive problems at three summer colonies despite rising ...

For seabirds, an Arctic Ocean with less sea ice could provide some tantalizing alternatives to the long-haul flights that some undertake each year. In a recent study, ecologist Manon Clairbaux and ...

Like the passenger pigeon and the moa, the great auk was driven to extinction by human activity, a new study found. The Natural History Museum, London/Science Source ...

These findings strengthen hypotheses from other recent work suggesting that little auks may have more flexibility than expected as the Arctic warms, and identified underwater terrain as a ...

The Great Auk was a relatively frequent sight on the shores of the North Atlantic until the 19th century. DNA research has recently established that a stuffed bird in the Royal Belgian Institute of ...

Now extinct, the great auk (Pinguinus impennis), a flightless bird, once inhabited the shores of the North Atlantic by the millions. The wings of the great auk were specialized for "flying" underwater ...

A new study from The Auk: Ornithological Advances investigates how several species have responded to changing environmental conditions in the Arctic over the last four decades.

Food chain without giants: modelling the trophic impact of bowhead whaling on little auk populations in the Atlantic Arctic.