The great auk (Pinguinus impennis) is a species of flightless alcid that became extinct in the mid-19th century. It was the only modern species in the...

species that are divided into 11 genera. Apart from the extinct great auk, all auks can fly, and are excellent swimmers and divers (appearing to "fly"...

dodo serves as an early poster species for anthropogenic extinction. The Great Auk (or, as it has been nicknamed, the “Penguin of the North”) was a flightless...

species with his boot during the struggle. Eldey, and the fate of the great auk, are mentioned in The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby by Charles...

family Alcidae, the auks. It is the closest living relative of the extinct great auk (Pinguinus impennis). Razorbills are primarily black with a white underside...

great auk, the symbol of the AOS. In 2018, the American Ornithology Society announced a partnership with Oxford University Press to publish The Auk:...

resemblance to the great auk. Despite this resemblance, however, they are not auks, and are not closely related to the great auk. They do not belong...

of auk related to the great auk known from fossils that were discovered in the Pliocene Yorktown Formation of North Carolina. Like the great auk, it...

the great number of birds and the presence of a polar bear on Funk Island. Funk Island was probably called Penguin Island because the great auk used...

Pingouin is a French vernacular term for two species of auks, the lesser auk and the great auk; it is used colloquially to designate penguins. In English...

drawing, painting or lithograph: many by the great 19th-century illustrator J.G. Keulemans, a couple (great auk and Himalayan mountain quail) by Edward Lear...

prime candidate for revival. Great auk - A flightless bird native to the North Atlantic similar to the penguin. The great auk went extinct in the 1800s due...

The little auk or dovekie (Alle alle) is a small auk, the only member of the genus Alle. Alle is the Sami name of the long-tailed duck; it is onomatopoeic...

form of recreational sport. The island was once home to the now extinct great auk, and rules exist to protect the bird habitats and breeding grounds. Stac...

microptera Atitlán grebe, Podilymbus gigas † (reportedly flightless) Great auk, Pinguinus impennis † Emperor penguin, Aptenodytes forsteri King penguin...

species of Uria, together with the razorbill, dovekie, and the extinct great auk, make up the tribe Alcini. They have distinctly white bellies, thicker...

Geirfuglasker (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈceirˌfʏklaˌscɛːr̥] , "Great Auk Rock") was a small islet near Reykjanes, Iceland. It was volcanic rock with...

National Museum, for the purpose of collecting skeletal remains of the great auk, that had been extinct since 1852. The proposal was not carried out due...

flightless great auk (Pinguinus impennis) of the North Atlantic was both the largest alcid and the second-largest member of the order. Great auks could range...

speculated that descriptions of the boobrie may be based on sightings of the great auk. The bellowing sound made by the boobrie, more like a bull than a bird...

powder, is named Auk 1. This is an allusion to the great auk, which is a flightless seabird that became extinct in the mid-19th century. Auk 1 flies six feet...

Francisco–based musical duo The Great Auk. Hubbard, Robert. "Biography: Ed's Redeeming Qualities". AllMusic. Retrieved 26 May 2010. The Great Auk. Retrieved 6 September...

University of Copenhagen. Raben brought a specimen of the now extinct great auk back from Iceland in 1821. In 1968, a descendant of his, Baron Raben-Levetzau...

Skull of M. howardi compared with the skull of the great auk...

of the specimens he sold were of dubious provenance. His purchase of a great auk egg in 1894 for 300 guineas, a huge sum at the time, caused a public stir...

Ronaldsay was one habitat for the great auk which was quite abundant until then. At one Neolithic site, great auk bones make up nearly 14% of bird bones...

possibly extinct birds: Carolina parakeet, passenger pigeon, Labrador duck, great auk, pinnated grouse, and, possibly, the Eskimo curlew, Ivory-billed woodpecker...

the idea that catastrophe is an important mechanism of extinction. The great auk was a large flightless bird that lived in the Northern Hemisphere. It...

that occurred in the European region until recently (post 1800) — the great auk and the Canary Islands oystercatcher — are now globally extinct, while...

the call of the common guillemot. Uria auks are relatives of the razorbill, little auk and the extinct great auk and together make up the tribe Alcini...