page_title: List of birds of Manitoba
section_title: Auks, murres, and puffins
hierarchical_section_title: List of birds of Manitoba / Auks, murres, and puffins
caption_attribution_description: Black Guillemot taken by myself in Oban Harbour June 2005. Quentin Goodman
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  This list of birds of Manitoba includes all the bird species confirmed in the Canadian province of Manitoba as determined by the Manitoba Avian Research Committee. As of 2009 there were 390 species on this list. Between that date and July 2020, 12 additional species have been added through eBird. Of the 402 species, 76 are rare or accidental, 23 are classed as occasional, and eight have been introduced to Manitoba or elsewhere in North America. One species is extinct and two species have been extirpated; one of them might be extinct.
  This list is presented in the taxonomic sequence of the Check-list of North and Middle American Birds, 7th edition through the 61st Supplement, published by the American Ornithological Society. Common and scientific names are also those of the Check-list, except that Canadian English spellings are used and the common names of families are from the Clements taxonomy because the AOS list does not include them.
  The following codes are used to describe some categories of occurrence. The MARC Checklist provides abundance codes by region and season, and species may be abundant at one time and place and accidental in another.
context_section_description: Order: Charadriiformes   Family: Alcidae
  Alcids are superficially similar to penguins due to their black-and-white colours, their upright posture, and some of their habits. However, they are only distantly related to the penguins and are able to fly. Auks live on the open sea, only deliberately coming ashore to nest.
  Dovekie, Alle alle (A)
  Black guillemot, Cepphus grylle
  Ancient murrelet, Synthliboramphus antiquus (A)
caption: Black guillemot
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