The Great Auk, or Garefowl

• Main Author: Grieve, Symington
• Format: Book
• Language: unknown
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2015
• Subjects: Slaughter; Great auk; North Atlantic; Pinguinus impennis
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781316155431

The great auk (Pinguinus impennis, formerly Alca impennis), a flightless bird of the north Atlantic, became extinct in the mid-1850s because of over-hunting - apart from being used as a food source and as fish-bait, its down was used for feather beds, and efforts in the early nineteenth century to r...