Dovekie

Bird - Alle Alle

Dovekies breed in the high Arctic islands and their diet consists mainly of crustaceans and copepods, feeding close to the shore when nesting and scavenging out in the open ocean when not nesting. Dovekies are the smallest bird of their species.

Photo Credit: Dovekie by Michael Haferkamp, 2005. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AlleAlle_2.jpg. Licenced with CC BY-SA 3.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0.

English

Term Dialect
Bull bird Nunatsiavut English
Bully bird Nunatsiavut English
Dovekie Standard English
Little auk Standard English

Greenlandic

Term Dialect
Appaliarsuk Kalaallisut

Inuktut

Term Dialect
Akpaliapik Aivilingmiutut
Akpaliarjuk Aivilingmiutut
Appaliatsuk Nunatsiavummiutut

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