SIKU Wildlife

Dovekie

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Dovekie

Dovekie

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.