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	Auk
		Auk accordingly altered course at 0905 and plunged through the rough seas and a veritable curtain of fog, while her foghorn blared its warning.
		Auk returned to the minefields soon thereafter and teamed with Oriole to conduct a sweep on the afternoon of the 14th.
		Underway from Kirkwall on 1 October, Auk reached Plymouth, England, on the 5th, and underwent voyage repairs there until the 16th, when she left the British Isles and headed for the coast of France, reaching Brest on the morning of the 17th.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/a14/auk-i.htm (3866 words)

	AllRefer.com - auk (Vertebrate Zoology) - Encyclopedia
		The least auklet (about 6 1/2 in./16.3 cm), common in the Bering Sea region, is the smallest of the family, and the razor-billed auk, Alca torda (16–18 in./40–45 cm), is the largest surviving member.
		Auks return to the same breeding grounds every year, and each individual goes to the very same nesting site.
		Auks are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Aves, order Charadriiformes, family Alcidae.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/auk.html (300 words)

	Encyclopedia topic: Auk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Auks are birds (Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings) of the family Alcidae in the order Charadriiformes (Large diverse order of aquatic birds found along seacoasts and inland waters: shorebirds and coastal diving birds; most feed on anima life).
		The feeding behaviour of auks is often compared to that of penguin (Short-legged flightless birds of cold southern especially Antarctic regions having webbed feet and wings modified as flippers) s, they are both wing (A movable organ for flying (one of a pair)) -propelled pursuit divers.
		Although not to the extent of penguins, auks have to a large extent sacrficed flight, and also mobility on land, in exchange for swimming; their wings are a compromise between the best possible design for diving and the bare minimum needed for flying.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/au/auk.htm (1208 words)

	Auk Encyclopedia, Definition, History, Biography @ ARTISTICNUDITY.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The current paucity of auks in the Atlantic (6 species), compared to the Pacific (19-20 species) is considered to be because of extinctions to the Atlantic auks, the fossil records shows there were many more species in the Atlantic during the Pliocene.
		In the region where auks live their only seabird competition is with cormorants (which dive powered by their strong feet); in areas where the two groups feed on the same prey the auks tend to feed further offshore.
		Although not to the extent of penguins, auks have to a large extent sacrificed flight, and also mobility on land, in exchange for swimming; their wings are a compromise between the best possible design for diving and the bare minimum needed for flying.
	www.artisticnudity.com /encyclopedia/Auk (1140 words)

	USS Auk
		Auk remained there for over a month, undergoing repairs and fitting out for her pending duty sweeping the North Sea Mine Barra During this time, paravanes ("Burney Gear") were installed and she underwent necessary upkeep.
		Underway from Kirkwall on I October, Auk reached Plymouth, England, on the 5th, and underwent voyage repairs there until the 16th, when she left the British Isles and headed for the coast of France, reaching Brest on the morning of the 17th.
		While Auk lay in reserve, the Coast and Geodetic Survey found itself in urgent need of ships to replace those which-for reasons of age or unsuitability for the work to be performedhad been disposed of.
	www.multied.com /navy/Minelayer/Auk.html (3566 words)

	Great Auk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Great Auk was once to be found in great numbers on islands off eastern Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Ireland and Britain, but it was eventually hunted to extinction.
		The last pair was killed July 3, 1844, on the island of Eldey off Iceland, though a later sighting was claimed of a live individual in 1852 off the Newfoundland Banks in Canada.
		One theory connects the Great Auk with the origin of the word penguin, which may have come from the Welsh phrase pen gwyn, meaning "white head", referring originally to the Great Auk (although the head of the Great Auk is not in fact white, there is a white patch behind the beak).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_Auk (359 words)

	Auk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The seabird, a Little Auk, had been blown inland, and after being recovered by conservationists was released on to the Sands Lake beside the Coastal Road.
		Auks are birds of the family Alcidae in the order Charadriiformes.
		In contrast to penguins, auks are able to fly (with the exception of the extinct Great Auk).
	hallencyclopedia.com /Auk (503 words)

	auk - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about auk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Most auks are colonial, breeding on stack tops or cliff edges, although some nest in crevices or holes.
		The smallest, at 20 cm/8 in is the little auk Alle alle, a thickset arctic bird, with short wings and bill, that winters as far south as Britain.
		It would undoubtedly be mistaken for an auk, when seen from a distance, either on the wing, or when diving and quietly swimming about the retired channels of Tierra del Fuego.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /auk (324 words)

	Great Auk - An Introduction - ROM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		With the exception of the extinct Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) all members of the family are small, stumpy, short-winged birds confined to the sea and coasts of the Northern Hemisphere.
		All Auks are able to withstand the rigours of wind, wave and cold weather and the cold seas in which they are found.
		Species of the family usually breed in large social colonies and their guano is responsible for the fertility of the isolated rocky islands that they colonise.
	www.rom.on.ca /biodiversity/auk (679 words)

	ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Auk
		Auk, common name for any of the web-footed seabirds in the auk and puffin family.
		The razorbill, or razor-billed auk, is a swimming bird, about 40 cm...
		Guillemot, common name for five northern species of seabird of the auk family.
	au.encarta.msn.com /Auk.html (88 words)

	auk on Encyclopedia.com
		The least auklet (about 6 1/2 in./16.3 cm), common in the Bering Sea region, is the smallest of the family, and the razor-billed auk, Alca torda (16-18 in./40-45 cm), is the largest surviving member.
		DEAD BIRD SOCIETY; The dodo, the great auk and the tragicomic Mauritius red hen (wiped out because of its fondness for the colour red) may not have been evolution's finest work; but, as members of the fast-growing...
		Identifying Great Auks and other birds in the Palaeolithic art of western Europe: a reply to d'Errico.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/a1/auk.asp (541 words)

	Recently Extinct Animals - Great Auk - Pinguinus impennis
		This 75-cm auk, which was the only auk that was unable to fly due to the atrophy of its wings, became known as the 'penguin of the north'.
		Distinctive features of the Great Auk are a fl, grooved bill, brown on the sides of the head, neck and throat, and a large white patch in the front of the eyes.
		The greater part of the remaining Great Auks perished during or after the disaster, and as many as 27 birds were killed by man in 1830 an 1831.
	home.conceptsfa.nl /~pmaas/rea/greatauk.htm (730 words)

	Little Auk Kit Boat Lightweight roof rack tender - Swallowboats
		Little Auk has been discontinued as a kit due to cost, but we still supply her panels and bulkheads, along with an instruction book.
		Little Auk was designed as a lightweight roof rackable tender, but also as a sailing dingy in her own right.
		Auk comes together without drama, the builder encouraged even after only a day's work by the sight of a hull taking shape in the workshop.
	www.swallowboats.com /little-auk.htm (367 words)

	November 2001
		Since the computer network is already connected between the two buildings of AUK and it is difficult to enlarge the network, it is expected to move departments from the second building to the first building and to have lecture halls primarily in the new building.
		AUK administration will be glad to receive any help from those students who want to 'build AUK with their own hands!' It will announce paid jobs if there will be need for such.
		AUK student feels even more offended if someone thinks about his/her nation, as nomads not changed much from the previous centuries (in fact, AUK is better equipped with the computers and other studying facilities that ViA has ever been).
	www.geocities.com /anisa_thestar/November2001 (7998 words)

	Great Auk - History - ROM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		At one time the Great Auk was a creature that marked the range of the Grand Banks in the New World and was used as an 'indicator of position' or navigation marker by sailors but was now a rarity if it was to be seen at all prior to its final extinction.
		In 1808 the Geirfuglaskers (translated as the rock of the great auk), a group of skerries that had been used for centuries as a harvest area for Great Auks by the local people, were visited by a British ship.
		In a report in The Auk 1936, Edward Thomas Gilliard of the American Museum of Natural History in New York described an expedition to Funk Island, Newfoundland, to investigate the Gannet (Sula bassanus) colony.
	www.rom.on.ca /biodiversity/auk/aukhist.html (3370 words)

	Canadian Biodiversity: The Great Auk
		By the late 1600s the Auk population was dramatically declining owing to commercial exploitation for feathers oil and meat.
		The small clutch size of the Great Auk, and the fact that it did not breed until it was several years old may have been pertinent to its extinction.
		Owing to their flightlessness, Great Auks may have had a very limited foraging range, and prey depletion in proximity to colonies may have acted in a density dependent manner limiting colony size.
	www.biology.mcgill.ca /undergra/c465a/biodiver/2000/great-auk/great-auk.htm (866 words)

	Amazon.com: Great Auk: Books: Errol Fuller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The auk's head alone merits, and receives, several pages of images and explanations: a grooved, fish-shaped beak, hazel eyes and a patch of white between them gave the bird an awkward, forlorn dignity--while its upright walk made it rare visual kin to the penguin.
		The great auk, or "penguin of the north," is nearly as well known in the annals of extinction as the dodo and passenger pigeon.
		Nearing extinction, the auks became valuable to collectors for their eggs and skin, and the last birds were collected in 1844.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0810963914?v=glance (1175 words)

	Auke Tribe Totem Project
		More than 20 years after the 40-foot Auk Tribe totem that used to stand outside Centennial Hall was carved, it is being refurbished in preparation for its installation in the new atrium at Juneau-Douglas High School.
		Tlingit master carver Nathan Jackson and his wife, Dorica, are in town this week from Ketchikan to repaint the pole they carved out of Western red cedar in 1981, and to replace some pieces of the wood that had rotted.
		The restoration cost is being funded with donations from the Downtown Juneau Rotary Club and by Juneau residents Mary Ellen Arvold and Dave Hass in memory of their daughter Elizabeth.
	www.juneaurotary.org /auke_tribe_totem_project2.htm (483 words)

	akobaale_uk : AUK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In this respect, AUK is adopting an open door policy, and accepts the fact that many people will come in and walk out.
		If the aims and objectives of AUK are shared and accepted by all members, then members, given jobs can feel empowered to act in the best interest of AUK and its members.
		AUK should open a bank account (preferably a current a\c) for its operation.
	www.greatestcities.com /userinfo.bml?user=akobaale_uk (1068 words)

	Auk Theatre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		ORTHO on one side and the soundtrack for Dental Auk recorded on such a lovely picture disk, see recordings for details.
		AUK Theater's Modus Operandi stems from simply not resisting the urge to peek into the blind-spots or play mnemonic detective.
		AUK Theater is populated with such cork-screwy personoids to pop the cork on your wee head (and toss-off an interesting factoid about any lice that go scurrying).
	www.begoniasociety.org /auk_theatre.htm (409 words)

	Great Auk (Wood kayak designs - building plans and kits) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The 14 footer strikes a happy medium between the Little Auk and the full size boat.
		The Great Auk Double is a a fast, comfortable design for dedicated paddling partners.
		The Great Auk bird was has become a symbol of man's destruction of the environment.
	www.guillemot-kayaks.com /Building/Guillemot/GreatAuk (361 words)

	Auk, The: Auks: Alcidae, The (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Although the taxonomy and nomenclature mainly follow Strauch (Auk 102:520-539, 1985) and the 1983 AOU check-list (with snowi, perdix, and scrippsi treated as subspecies of Cepphus columba, Brachyramphus marmoratus, and Synthliboramphus hypoleucus, respectively), deviations are hardly explained, and the authors' own opinions often remain obscure.
		Unfortunately, the Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) is fully treated in the text but is not illustrated.
		This volume presents a wealth of information for serious ornithologists, extensively covering the behavior and (breeding) biology of auks, but unfortunately it is rather incomplete on taxonomy and distribution.
	www.24hourscholar.com /p/articles/mi_qa3793/is_199901/ai_n8832381 (539 words)

	The Auk
		Topics of articles appearing in The Auk include the documentation, analysis, and interpretation of laboratory and field studies, theoretical or methodological developments, and reviews of information or ideas.
		Authors are encouraged to consider the relevance of their conclusions to general concepts and theories and to taxa in addition to birds.
		The Auk also provides reviews of recently released books that are of significance to ornithologists.
	www.aou.org /auk/index.php3 (210 words)

	Great Auk
		A strong swimmer, the great auk wintered as far south as Florida and southern Spain.
		Its extermination began with a slaughter for food and bait by local inhabitants, and continued for the bird’s fat and feathers.
		The last known living pair and one egg were taken in Iceland in 1844, and the great auk is now represented in collections only by bones, skins, and eggs.
	www.nature.ca /notebooks/english/greatauk.htm (110 words)

	THE GREAT AUK, The: by Errol Fuller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		There is a fascinating historical catalogue covering every known specimen and surviving egg (many of which commanded huge prices during the days when such items were fashionable).
		A chapter details the lives some of those whose names have become inextricably linked with the species and another describes alleged sightings of Great Auks long after their supposed date of extinction.
		The Great Auk represents an astonishingly comprehensive record of a lost species and the book is sure to become a milestone of ornithological literature.
	www.hoppa.demon.co.uk (267 words)

	AUK Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		ICIP and the Center for International Education and Development Assistance (CIEDA) at IU-Bloomington are collaborating in a four-year institutional development project for the American University of Kyrgyzstan (AUK) in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan with funding from the US Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
		Through faculty exchanges it provides for AUK faculty trained in the Soviet higher education system to gain exposure to the way in which the social sciences are studied and taught in the West.
		Administrative exchanges enable AUK administrators to learn about and adapt administrative systems in order to improve the efficiency of its operation.
	www.uindy.edu /~icip/aukproject.htm (476 words)

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