The Labrador Duck ( Camptorhynchus labradorius ) was a striking black and white eider-like sea duck that was never common, and is believed to be the first bird to become extinct in North America after 1500.

The last Labrador Duck is believed to have been seen at Elmira, New York on December 12, 1878 ; the last preserved specimen was shot in 1875 on Long Island.

The Labrador Duck migrated annually, wintering off the coasts of New Jersey and New England — where it favoured southern sandy coasts, bays, and inlets — and breeding in Labrador in the summer.

The Labrador Duck was also known as a Pied Duck, a vernacular name that it shared with the Surf Scoter and the Common Goldeneye ( and even the American Oystercatcher ), a fact that has led to difficulties in interpreting old records of these species, and also as Skunk Duck.

The closest evolutionary relatives of the Labrador Duck are apparently the scoters ( Melanitta ).

The Labrador Duck fed on small molluscs, and some fishermen reported catching it on fishing lines baited with mussels.

Another, completely unrelated, duck with similar ( but even more specialized ) bill morphology is the Australian Pink-eared Duck, which feeds largely on plankton, but also mollusks ; the condition in the Labrador Duck probably resembled that in the Blue Duck most in outward appearance.

It is thought that the Labrador Duck was always rare, but between 1850 and 1870, populations waned further.

Although all sea ducks readily feed on shallow-water molluscs, no Western Atlantic bird species seems to have been as dependent on such food as much as the Labrador Duck.

* Ducher, William ( 1894 ): The Labrador Duck – another specimen, with additional data respecting extant specimens.

** Camptorhynchus, Labrador Duck ( extinct )

* Camptorhynchus labradorius Labrador Duck

** † Labrador Duck Camptorhynchus labradorius ( extinct )

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The Labrador Duck was a common bird on the Canadian coast until 19th century, but is now extinct.

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The pass starts from just north-east of the Island of Newfoundland and Labrador | Newfoundland over the North Atlantic Ocean to central Africa, over South Sudan.

In May 2010, provincial unemployment rates varied from a low of 5. 0 % in Saskatchewan to a high of 13. 8 % in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Prior to that, hunting by local natives can be documented from Late Stone Age Scandinavia and eastern North America, as well as from early 5th century Labrador, where the bird seems to have occurred only as a straggler.

In 1833, Audubon set forth from Maine accompanied by his son John, and five other young colleagues to explore the ornithology of Labrador.

It was thought to breed in Labrador, and it wintered from Nova Scotia to as far south as Chesapeake Bay.

It is one of numerous large lakes in an arc from Labrador through the northern United States and into the Northwest Territories of Canada.

It is largely formed in the Labrador Sea and in the Greenland Sea by the sinking of highly saline, dense overflow water from the Greenland Sea.

Newfoundland is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, separated by the Strait of Belle Isle from Labrador, the sparsely populated mainland part of the province.

In 1528 Piri Reis drew a second world map, of which a small fragment ( showing Greenland and North America from Labrador and Newfoundland in the north to Florida, Cuba and parts of Central America in the south ) still survives.

A community based pilot program using wind turbines and hydrogen generators is being undertaken from 2007 for five years in the remote community of Ramea, Newfoundland and Labrador.

Breeds descending from the Eskimo dog or Qimmiq were once found throughout the Northern Hemisphere from Siberia to Canada, Alaska, Greenland, Labrador, and Baffin Island.

* Labrador tea, made from the shrub by the same name, found in the northern part of North America.

* c. 5600 BC: The Red Paint People become established in the region from present-day Labrador to New York state.

Elizabeth I of England kept a " unicorn horn " in her cabinet of curiosities, brought back by Arctic explorer Martin Frobisher on his return from Labrador in 1577.

The Cree language ( also known in the most broad classification as Cree-Montagnais, Cree-Montagnais-Naskapi, to show the groups included within it ) is the name for a group of closely related Algonquian languages spoken by approximately 117, 000 people across Canada, from the Northwest Territories to Labrador.

Its present name is the Kalaallisut for " Cape ", from its position at the end of the Nuup Kangerlua fjord on the eastern shore of the Labrador Sea.

at the mouth of Nuup Kangerlua ( formerly Baal's River ), some from the shores of Labrador Sea on the southwestern coast of Greenland, and about south of the Arctic Circle.

The foggiest place in the world is the Grand Banks off the island of Newfoundland, the meeting place of the cold Labrador Current from the north and the much warmer Gulf Stream from the south.

Full network service is still not available over-the-air in Newfoundland and Labrador, although CJON, having disaffiliated from CTV in 2002, now clears the vast majority of the Global network schedule in that province, most recently adding the network's national newscast in mid-2009.

The Strait of Belle Isle (), sometimes referred to as Straits of Belle Isle or Labrador Straits ) is a waterway in eastern Canada that separates the Labrador Peninsula from the island of Newfoundland, in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

John James Audubon's son reported seeing a nest belonging to the species in Labrador, but it is uncertain where it bred.

## Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador ( John Crosbie )

The Canadian Army has a number of Regular Force professional brass-reed bands commanded by Land Force Atlantic Area: The Royal Canadian Regiment Band in Gagetown, New Brunswick ; 1st Battalion, Royal Newfoundland Regiment in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador ; 3rd Field Artillery Regiment, RCA Artillery Saint John, New Brunswick ; 8th Canadian Hussars ( Princess Louise's ) in Moncton, New Brunswick ; Halifax Military District in Halifax Regional Municipality ; The Prince Edward Island Regiment ( RCAC ) in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.

Before the town of Sunnyside was even settled, explorer John Guy, in the year of 1612, “ to the north near the present Sunnyside he found a group of natives …” ( Rockwood, 1992 ) According to the Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage website, “ The Beothuks are the aboriginal people of the island of Newfoundland.

* 1498-English explorer John Cabot, making a second voyage to North America ( looking for Northwest Passage to India ), travels the coast of Labrador, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and trades furs with Micmacs.

Grimes won the 2001 Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador Leadership to become Party Leader, defeating John Efford by 14 votes in a fierce and divisive contest in Mount Pearl.

John Carnell Crosbie, PC, OC, ONL, QC ( born January 30, 1931 ) is a retired provincial and federal politician and the 12th Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

On February 4, 2008, Governor General Michaëlle Jean, on the advice of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, appointed John Crosbie as Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador, succeeding Edward Roberts.

* John Montagu ( Royal Navy officer ) ( 1719 – 1795 ), Commodore Governor for Newfoundland and Labrador, 1776 – 1778

By then the time for an Atlantic crossing had come down from the 7h 56m achieved earlier in the war by a BOAC Liberator, to the 5h 46m for the de Havilland Mosquito flown by Wing Commander John de Lacy Wooldridge from Goose Bay, Labrador, to the UK.

Spanish author Francisco López de Gómara wrote in his Historia de las Indias ( 1553 ) about la Tierra de Labrador ; " Hither also came men from Norway with the pilot Joan Scoluo, and Englishmen with Sebastian be John Gaboto.

Another possible reference to John Scolvus visiting Labrador is a document prepared in about 1575 for the first voyage of Martin Frobisher.

John developed missionary work around existing Yupik villages, rather than establishing mission stations, as had been done by Moravian missionaries in Greenland and Labrador.

The station operates additional news bureaus in Edmundston, Bathurst, Caraquet, Fredericton and Saint John, New Brunswick ; Halifax, Nova Scotia ; St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador ; and Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.

The present, and 12th, Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador is John Crosbie, who has served in the role since 4 February 2008.

Also, The viceroy, him or herself a member and Chancellor of the order, will induct deserving individuals into the Order of Newfoundland and Labrador and, upon installation, automatically becomes a Knight or Dame of Justice and the Vice-Prior in Newfoundland and Labrador of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem.

Major Peter John Cashin ( March 8, 1890 – May 21, 1977 ) was a businessman, soldier and politician in Newfoundland and Labrador.

The Basilica-Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador is the metropolitan cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. John's, Newfoundland and the mother church and symbol of Roman Catholicism in Newfoundland.

The Cathedral of St. John the Baptist is located in the city of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

St. John ’ s South is a provincial electoral district for the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

St. John ’ s West is a provincial electoral district for the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

St. John ’ s North is a provincial electoral district for the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.