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The Irish name for the great auk is falcóg mhór, meaning "big seabird/auk". The Basque name is arponaz, meaning "spearbill". Its early French name was apponatz, while modern French uses grand pingouin. The Norse called the great auk geirfugl, which means "spearbird".
Scientific classification; Domain: ... Apart from the extinct great auk, ... The family name Alcidae comes from the genus Alca given by Carl Linnaeus in 1758 for ...
Scientific name Range Comments Pictures Great auk: Pinguinus impennis: Northern Atlantic and western Mediterranean A bone found in El Harhoura 2, Morocco was dated to 5050-3850 BCE. [62] This is the second southernmost record of this species in the eastern Atlantic, after another bone from Madeira. [63] The species became extinct globally in ...
Ornithology, formerly The Auk and The Auk: Ornithological Advances, is a peer-reviewed scientific journal and the official publication of the American Ornithological Society (AOS). It was established in 1884 and is published quarterly. The journal covers the anatomy, behavior, and distribution of birds.
It is the closest living relative of the extinct great auk (Pinguinus impennis). [4] Historically, it has also been known as "auk", [5] "razor-billed auk" [6] and "lesser auk". [7] Razorbills are primarily black with a white underside. The male and female are identical in plumage; however, males are generally larger than females.
One species is extinct (the great auk, another probably is (the Eskimo curlew), and one has been extirpated (the house sparrow). This list is presented in the taxonomic sequence of the Check-list of North and Middle American Birds, 7th edition through the 63rd Supplement, published by the American Ornithological Society (AOS). [2]
Found in 1914, 1969 and the 1970s; now very rare or already extinct. Its taxonomy is unresolved. A part of the house wren complex; other scientific names for it include T. musculus guadeloupensis and T. guadeloupensis. Martinique house wren, Troglodytes aedon martinicensis (Martinique, West Indies, c. 1890) Last found in 1886.
The great auk (Pinguinus impennis), also known as the penguin or garefowl, is a species of flightless alcid that became extinct in the mid-19th century. It was the only modern species in the genus Pinguinus .