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  2. Great auk - Wikipedia

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    Female great auks would lay only one egg each year, between late May and early June, although they could lay a replacement egg if the first one was lost. [21]: 32 [46] In years when there was a shortage of food, the great auks did not breed. [47] A single egg was laid on bare ground up to 100 metres (330 ft) from shore.

  3. Portal:Scottish islands/Fauna - Wikipedia

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    The great auk was an important part of many Native American cultures, both as a food source and as a symbolic item. Many Maritime Archaic people were buried with great auk bones. One burial discovered included someone covered by more than 200 great auk beaks, which are presumed to be the remnants of a cloak made of great auks' skins.

  4. 78 Pics That Point To Interesting But Sometimes Overlooked ...

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    Additionally, the cave features 16 marine animal depictions, such as seals and great auks, as well as various figures that could represent fish or cetaceans. ... These photos show 16 year old ...

  5. Auk - Wikipedia

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    Auks are monomorphic (males and females are similar in appearance). Extant auks range in size from the least auklet, at 85 g (3 oz) and 15 cm (5.9 in), to the thick-billed murre, at 1 kg (2.2 lb) and 45 cm (18 in). Due to their short wings, auks have to flap their wings very quickly to fly.

  6. Geirfuglasker - Wikipedia

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    The rough surf around the island usually made it inaccessible to humans, and one of the last refuges for the flightless bird the great auk (which was also called "garefowl" — "geirfugl" in Icelandic). In a volcanic eruption in 1830 this rock submerged. The surviving great auks moved to a nearby island called Eldey and were wiped out by humans ...

  7. Geirfuglasker (Vestmannaeyjar) - Wikipedia

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    ' Great Auk Stack '), [2] or Freykja (), [citation needed] is a small, uninhabited island in the Vestmannaeyjar archipelago. [1] [2] Geirfuglasker is located approximately 30 kilometres (19 mi) off Iceland's southwestern coast. [1] [2] The island hosted one of the last known colony of great auks, which thrived given its inaccessibility to humans.

  8. Stac an Armin - Wikipedia

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    Mounted great auk, Natural History Museum, London. On Stac an Armin, in July, 1840, the last great auk (Pinguinus impennis) seen in Britain [17] was caught and killed. A then 75-year-old inhabitant of St Kilda told Henry Evans, a frequent visitor to the archipelago, that he and his father-in-law with another man had caught a "garefowl ...

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