Alcidae
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Murres nesting (from USGS)
Alcidae is a family of marine paleartic birds which includes the auks, puffins, guillemots, murres, murrelets, including the now extinct but iconic Alca impennis -- the Great Auk, eradicated in 1844.
Alcidae are members of the Charadriiformes.
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