The Great Auk ( Pinguinus impennis ) was a large, flightless bird of the alcid family that became extinct in the mid-19th century.

The Great Auk was tall and weighed around, making it the largest member of the alcid family.

During summer, the Great Auk had a white patch over each eye.

Great Auk pairs mated for life.

Humans had hunted the Great Auk for more than 100, 000 years.

Many Maritime Archaic people were buried with Great Auk bones, and one was buried covered in over 200 auk beaks, which are assumed to have been part of a cloak made of their skins.

Scientists soon began to realize that the Great Auk was disappearing and it became the beneficiary of many early environmental laws, but this proved not to be enough.

The Great Auk is mentioned in a number of novels and the scientific journal of the American Ornithologists ' Union is named The Auk in honour of this bird.

Stuffed Great Auk no.

The Great Auk was also closely related to the Little Auk ( Dovekie ), which underwent a radically different evolution compared to Pinguinus.

Due to its outward similarity to the Razorbill ( apart from flightlessness and size ), the Great Auk was often placed in the genus Alca, following Linnaeus.

The molecular data are compatible with either view, but the weight of evidence suggests placing the Great Auk in a distinct genus.

The Great Auk was not closely related to the other extinct genera of flightless alcids, Mancalla, Praemancalla, and Alcodes.

Known from bones found in the Yorktown Formation of the Lee Creek Mine in North Carolina, it is believed to have split along with the Great Auk from a common ancestor.

Pinguinus alfrednewtoni lived in the western Atlantic while the Great Auk lived in the eastern Atlantic, but after the former died out after the Pliocene, the Great Auk replaced it.

The Great Auk was one of the 4400 animal species originally described by Carolus Linnaeus in his 18th-century work, Systema Naturae, in which it was named Alca impennis.

Only known illustration of a Great Auk drawn from life, Ole Worm's pet received from the Faroe Islands

The Basque name for the Great Auk is arponaz, meaning " spearbill ".

The Norse called the Great Auk geirfugl, which means " spearbird ".

The Inuit name for the Great Auk was isarukitsck, which meant " little wing ".

During the winter, the Great Auk migrated south either in pairs or in small groups, and never with the entire nesting colony.

Karađorđe's paternal ancestors migrated during the Second Great Serb Migration in 1737-1739 under the leadership of Patriarch Šakabenta, as a result of the Austrian-Turkish War in which Serbs took part.

His great-great-grandfather Bennett migrated from Connecticut to Nova Scotia c. 1765, before the American Revolution, taking the lands forcibly removed from the deported Acadians during the Great Upheaval.

Saxons, along with Angles, Frisians and Jutes, invaded or migrated to the island of Great Britain ( Britannia ) around the time of the collapse of Roman authority in the west.

From 1910-1940, tens of thousands of African Americans migrated north from Alabama in the Great Migration to seek jobs, education for their children, and freedom from lynching in northern cities, such as St. Louis, Chicago, Detroit, and Cleveland.

Archaeological and linguistic evidence suggests the Navajo descended from the Athabaskan people near Great Slave Lake, Canada, who migrated after 1000 AD.

After his death in 1763, many artists and craftsmen migrated to Berlin and Potsdam, to work for King Frederick the Great, because Frederick's successor, Margrave Frederick Christian had little understanding of art.

In the 19th century, historians and ethnographers recorded their oral tradition that told of the tribe having migrated south in ancient times from the Great Lakes region, where other Iroquoian-speaking peoples were located.

Since the Great Lakes region was the core of Iroquoian-language speakers, scholars have theorized that the Cherokee migrated South from that region.

Other historians hold that, judging from linguistic and cultural data, the Tuscarora people migrated South from other Iroquoian-speaking people in the Great Lakes region in ancient times.

Millions of acres of farmland were damaged, and hundreds of thousands of people were forced to leave their homes ; many of these families ( often known as " Okies ", since so many came from Oklahoma ) migrated to California and other states, where they found economic conditions little better during the Great Depression than those they had left.

With the formation of the Panamanian land bridge to North America about three million years ago, boids have migrated north as colubrids ( and various Nearctic mammals ) have migrated south, as part of the Great American Interchange.

The settlement of Winchester began as early as 1729, when Quakers such as Abraham Hollingsworth migrated up ( south ) the Great Valley along the long-traveled Indian Path ( later called the Great Wagon Road by the colonists ) from Pennsylvania.

The Ojibwe ( or Chippewa, as they are known in the United States ), a branch of the Anishinaabe-speaking language group, gradually migrated west along both sides of the Great Lakes.

Armed with guns by trading and having adopted the horse from the Mandan and Hidatsa, by the end of the eighteenth century the Chippewa had migrated from woodlands to the Great Plains and begun to push the Lakota west before them.

The name of the parish is derived from the former French colony of Acadia in Canada ( which consisted of the modern provinces of Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and much of Maine ) many of whose French-speaking inhabitants were deported to France and then migrated to Louisiana in the Great Upheaval ( see Cajuns ).

Like most rural towns, Tatums experienced the crippling effects of the Great Depression, and many residents migrated to urban areas.

Anthropologists believe the Niitsitapi had not originated in the Great Plains of the Midwest North America, but rather migrated from the upper Northeastern part of the country.

" However the word was used in Great Britain since the 1770s and had migrated to the Pittsburgh region at least a generation before Lowe's 1930's claim.

As African Americans migrated north during the Great Migration, converted members spread the church north and west.

In the decades before the American Revolution the Piedmont " upcountry " of the Carolinas was quickly settled, mostly by recent immigrants who had migrated from the north to the south via the Great Valley.

Biltong as it is today evolved from the dried meat carried by the wagon-travelling Voortrekkers, who needed stocks of durable food as they migrated from the Cape Colony north-eastward ( away from British rule ) into the interior of Southern Africa during the Great Trek.