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  2. Great auk - Wikipedia

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    On the North American side, eider down initially was preferred, but once the eiders were nearly driven to extinction in the 1770s, down collectors switched to the great auk at the same time that hunting for food, fishing bait, and oil decreased. [50] [19]: 329 The great auk had disappeared from Funk Island by 1800.

  3. File:GreatAukMap.svg - Wikipedia

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    The following other wikis use this file: Usage on ar.wikipedia.org أوك كبير; Usage on arz.wikipedia.org اوك عظيم; Usage on ast.wikipedia.org

  4. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History - Wikipedia

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    The great auk was a large flightless bird that lived in the Northern Hemisphere. It had a large, intricately grooved beak. When the first settlers arrived in Iceland, the auk population was probably in the millions. However, the settlers found the auks to be “very good and nourishing meat.”

  5. Penguin Islands (Newfoundland and Labrador) - Wikipedia

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    Historians and naturalists believe that the Penguin Islands were a former breeding ground for the great auk. [1] Petrels were reported nesting in the islands in 1887, with an estimated 900 pairs living on South Penguin Island in 1945. [1]

  6. Funk Island - Wikipedia

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    By 1800 the great auk was probably extinct on Funk Island, and by 1844, in the world. Naturalists and scientists had become interested in the plight of the great auk and by June 1841 a Norwegian naturalist, Dr. Peter Stuvitz visited Funk Island with the hope of obtaining specimens of the birds, but was forced to leave due to weather conditions ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. Papa Westray - Wikipedia

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    It was one of the last places where the great auk was found; the last individual was killed in 1813. The reserve is also home to the rare and tiny purple-flowered Scottish primrose Primula scotica . The sea around most of the island is a Nature Conservation Marine Protection Area , in place to protect the feeding grounds of the island ...

  9. Bird extinction - Wikipedia

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    A taxidermized Great Auk The great auk (or, as it has been nicknamed, the “Penguin of the North”) was a flightless marine bird that inhabited the North Atlantic Ocean and its nearby islands. Its range once extended to the continental United States and Europe. [ 21 ]

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