Little auk
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![Little auk swimming and diving. Texel, Netherlands (2007)](/Images/godic/202501/24/-Zwemmende_en_duikende_kleine_alk-4961715.webm1411.jpg")
![Little auk in winter plumage](/Images/godic/202501/24/Alle_alle11412.jpg")
The little auk or dovekie (Alle alle) is a small auk, the only member of the genus Alle. It breeds on islands in the high Arctic. There are two subspecies: A. a. alle breeds in Greenland, Iceland, Novaya Zemlya and Spitzbergen, and A. a. polaris on Franz Josef Land.