A seabird has been spotted in Leicestershire for the first time since 2007. A little auk was caught on camera at Leicester ...

Wildlife rescue centres along the UK's east coast are caring for a number of seabirds called little auks that were injured ...

At the sale last week Captain Vivian Hewitt (first aviator to fly the Irish Sea—1912 ... Contrary to general belief the Auk was not an Arctic bird. It bred and lived in Iceland and on the ...

But they shared some lifestyle similarities: great auks also could not fly, and the adults ... of its best-preserved great auk eggshells to that of their living relatives. Sciensts are hoping to get ...

It was installed on a specially-built cairn at Fowl Craig at the north end of Papa Westray, to commemorate a great auk shot there in 1813. . The red clay bird has now lost its head due ...

A replica of a giant penguin-like bird which became extinct nearly 200 years ago has sold at auction for £25,000. The great auk was hunted to extinction in the mid-19th Century for its feathers ...

The North American Marbled Murrelet is a small plump (~200g) fast flying seabird belonging to the auk family or Alcidae ... relatively vocal nature while on the water. During fall the birds undergo a ...