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Standing about 75 to 85 centimetres (30 to 33 in) tall and weighing approximately 5 kilograms (11 lb) as adult birds, [24] the flightless great auk was the second-largest member of both its family and the order Charadriiformes overall, surpassed only by the mancalline Miomancalla. It is, however, the largest species to survive into modern times.
' 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.
18th-century sketch of Geirfuglasker Former location of Geirfuglasker among the Fuglasker islands. Geirfuglasker (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈceirˌfʏklaˌscɛːr̥] ⓘ, "Great Auk Rock") was a small islet near Reykjanes, Iceland. It was volcanic rock with steep sides except for two landing places.
Stac an Armin (Scottish Gaelic: Stac an Àrmainn), based on the proper Scottish Gaelic spelling (formerly àrmuinn), is a sea stack in the St Kilda archipelago. It is 196 metres (643 ft.) tall, qualifying it as a Marilyn. [4] It is the highest sea stack in Scotland and the British Isles. [5] [6] [7]
Like the great auk, P. alfrednewtoni was a flightless wing-propelled diver, meaning that they used their wings to propel themselves forward underwater in a fashion similar to penguins. While this locomotion is used by both flying and flightless auks, Smith suggests that the body weight limit for volant alcids lies at 2–2.5 kg (4.4–5.5 lb ...
Saying "the Great auk is extinct" is a correct statement, sure, and saying "the Great auk was extinct" is incorrect, since it's still extinct (one supposes). But saying "the Great auk is a flightless bird " is odd in a realist sense since, well, there is no Great auk, at least not a living one.
Auks or alcids are birds of the family Alcidae in the order Charadriiformes. [1] The alcid family includes the murres, guillemots, auklets, puffins, and murrelets.The family contains 25 extant or recently extinct species that are divided into 11 genera.
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