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plural auks
Any of several species of Arctic sea birds of the family Alcidae. quotations examples
Further afield, these auks are also in dire straits: Norway has seen vertiginous crashes, with hundreds of thousands of adult puffins in the once-teeming colony of Røst struggling to fledge any chicks in recent years.
2018 June 20, Louise Tickle, The Guardian