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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.
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 ...
The auks are a family of seabirds related to the gulls and terns which contains several genera. The common murre is placed in the guillemot (murre) genus Uria (Brisson, 1760), which it shares with the thick-billed murre or Brunnich's guillemot, U. lomvia. These species, together with the razorbill, little auk and the extinct great auk make up ...
4. The Great Auk is not the only auk to have a white marking on the head. The puffin has much more white on the head. The Great Auk must be one of the most distinctive birds in the world (huge size, flightless), and hardly needed any distinguishing from other auks. 5. What's a "learned folk-etymology"? Sounds like an oxymoron.
I am nominating the Great Auk article because I believe it is a comprehensive overview of the species, well-written and well-illustrated, and that it meets the criteria. The Great Auk was a large, flightless bird that actually gave penguins their name, though the auk was not related. It was hunted and collected into extinction in the mid-1800s.
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The razorbill (Alca torda) is a North Atlantic colonial seabird and the only extant member of the genus Alca of the family Alcidae, the auks. 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]
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