Dovekies
Alle
The little auk (Europe) or dovekie (North America) (Alle alle) is a small auk, the only member of the genus Alle. It breeds in huge numbers on islands in the high Arctic of the North Atlantic Ocean. There are two subspecies; A. a. alle breeds in Greenland, Novaya Zemlya and Svalbard; and A. a. polaris on Franz Josef Land. A small number of individuals also breed on Little Diomede Island in the Bering Strait, with additional breeding individuals thought to occur on King Island, St. Lawrence Island, St. Matthew Island and the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea. It also formerly bred on Grímsey just north of Iceland, but is extinct there now. In winter, they disperse widely across the Arctic and North Atlantic Oceans, with the largest numbers in the Arctic close to the pack ice edge, and smaller numbers south to northern Great Britain in the eastern Atlantic, and Nova Scotia in the western Atlantic.
1 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 1 known species
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
The Tudor Pattern Book (Herbal-Bestiary)
Anonymous · 1525 · p.88
Splendor of the Sun
Anonymous · 1550 · p.150
The Flowering Garden: Autumn
Crispijn van de Passe · 1616 · p.14
Atalanta Fleeing
Maier, Michael · 1618 · p.47
Ulyssis Aldrovandi ... De animalibus insectis libri septem
Aldrovandi, Ulisse · 1618 · p.214
Raphael artem medicam explanans
Hafenreffer, Samuel · 1629 · p.27
Raphael Explaining the Art of Medicine
Hafenreffer, Samuel · 1629 · p.14
Jan Jonston — Naeukeurige beschryving van de natuur der viervoetige dieren (1660)
Jan Jonston · 1660 · p.285
Kircher: China Illustrata (1667)
Athanasius Kircher · 1667 · p.194
Mundus Subterraneus
Athanasius Kircher · 1678 · p.910
Marcelli Malpighii ... De structura glandularum conglobatarum consimiliumque partium, epistola, Regiae Societati Londini ad scientiam naturalem promovendam institutae, dicata
Malpighi, Marcello · 1697 · p.13
Selecta Fungorum Carpologia, Vol 2
Louis-René & Charles Tulasne · 1863 · p.238
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 4523.