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The great auk has now become a powerful symbol of the damage humans can cause. Douglas Russell, Senior Curator of Birds at the Museum, says, 'The threats facing our flora and fauna are as great, if ...

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 ...

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

But then the bird became an obsession for collectors who vied for the last skins, eggs and skeletons. Victorian hunters, explorers and collectors feature strongly in the story of the Great Auk.

The Pacific Circuit: A Globalized Account of the Battle for the Soul of an American City NPR host Madrigal (Powering the Dream) offers a sprawling history of Oakland, Calif., that situates the ...

IMAGINATION has long had a large share in the accounts given of the Gare-fowl or Great Auk, notwithstanding the ... sale of a specimen of the egg of that bird. I should occupy too much space ...

In the process the birds’ single egg was trampled – the last known of the great auks. It’s the events leading up to this final obliteration on Eldey that Tim Birkhead deals with in the first half of ...