Auk Great (The extinct bird)
The great auk was destroyed by early explorers for food, by fishermen for bait and by hunters for feathers. The Great Auk or Garefowl was also known as a Penguin. The Great Auk inhabited the coasts and islands of the North Atlantic from Virginia and Ireland to Greenland and Iceland almost to the Arctic Circle. The flightless bird was easily captured. They and their eggs fed many sailors. Shorebirds that breed in a limited number of colonies at only certain locations are highly susceptible to concentrated stresses and the Great Auk was extinct by mid Nineteenth to twentieth Century. This is because all the great Auk birds were killed, hunted or bait so now this is to be an extinct bird
The great auk was destroyed by early explorers for food, by fishermen for bait and by hunters for feathers. The Great Auk or Garefowl was also known as a Penguin. The Great Auk inhabited the coasts and islands of the North Atlantic from Virginia and Ireland to Greenland and Iceland almost to the Arctic Circle. The flightless bird was easily captured. They and their eggs fed many sailors. Shorebirds that breed in a limited number of colonies at only certain locations are highly susceptible to concentrated stresses and the Great Auk was extinct by mid Nineteenth to twentieth Century. This is because all the great Auk birds were killed, hunted or bait so now this is to be an extinct bird
thats very interesting, and a little sad :(
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