How to Use auklet in a Sentence

auklet

noun

• Sea lions, common murres, and Cassin's auklets died by the thousands because of a lack of food.
  — Paul Melovidov, National Geographic, 8 Nov. 2016
• More than 30 dead seabirds -- murres, auklets and puffins -- have been found near the village in recent weeks, said Ken Stenek, a high school science teacher from the village.
  — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 19 June 2019
• Also in the mix are some kittiwakes, murres and auklets, the federal agency said.
  — Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News, 12 Sep. 2017
• Here, the northern fur seals number more than half a million strong, and avian species include horned and tufted puffins, red-legged kittiwakes, and crested auklets.
  — National Geographic, 26 Mar. 2019
• As a bird expert, Dunning was aware that crested auklets, a seabird in the same family as puffins, have fluorescent beaks.
  — Julissa Treviño, Smithsonian, 9 Apr. 2018
• But Douglas and others have found that crested auklets emit octanal, a compound also found in tangerines.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Apr. 2018
• Within 30 minutes, seemingly billions of birds— crested and whiskered auklets—were rafting on the sea’s surface until their numbers turned the water black.
  — Sophy Roberts, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Mar. 2018
• Now free of foxes, Big Koniuji still hosts thousands of auklets in the midsummer breeding season.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Apr. 2018
• Conservationists have long worried about microplastics, the tiny bits that have been found in the stomachs of seabirds, including many petrels, auklets and gulls that live along the California coast.
  — Peter Fimrite, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Mar. 2018
• Since puffins are closely related to auklets, Dunning's curiosity was piqued—and sure enough, his specimen's beak glowed orange.
  — Jamie Dunning, National Geographic, 27 Apr. 2018
• Forktail storm petrels, fulmars, shearwaters, kittiwakes, auklets and puffins also died.
  — Dan Joling, The Seattle Times, 16 Apr. 2019
• Officials recorded deaths of forktail storm petrels, fulmars, shearwaters, kittiwakes, auklets and puffins.
  — Dan Joling, The Seattle Times, 11 Aug. 2018

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