It’s the events leading up to this final obliteration on Eldey that Tim Birkhead deals with in the first half of The Great Auk, a book that’s both a homage to the extinct bird and an account ...

Also known as the ‘Penguin of the North’, the Great Auk was a large, flightless bird. Not only is it extinct in Britain, but also right across the world. Great Auks were easy targets for ...

Newton, in which he gives his version of the history of the egg of this extinct bird ... Symington Grieve's important work on “The Great Auk, its history, archæology, and remains,” published ...

Genetic research is targeting yet another extinct species, the once colossal seabird, the great auk. DNA sequencing should allow researchers to reintroduce the species into its native habitats.

The North Atlantic offers an unforgettable birdwatching experience with diverse seabird species on coastal cliffs and boats ...

It's presumed extinct because its entire habitat, which was in Mexico, has been destroyed. The Great Auk went extinct in the mid-19th century. They lived in the North Atlantic from Northern Spain ...

The great auk was once found on remote islands off eastern Canada, Greenland, Iceland and Scotland, but was hunted for its meat, eggs, feathers and oil. The species was finally declared extinct in ...

The Labrador duck, the great auk and the passenger pigeon—they are long gone, extinct for well over a century. The Afterlife’s of Natural History project focuses on critically endangered and vanished ...

It’s the events leading up to this final obliteration on Eldey that Tim Birkhead deals with in the first half of The Great Auk, a book that’s both a homage to the extinct bird and an account of its ...

Jessie Greengrass’s fiction includes An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It. The Great Auk is published by Bloomsbury at £20. To order your copy for £16.99 ...