Tag: Great Auk

First Record of the Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) from Labrador

Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) Science Article 2 abstract Recent archeological investigations undertaken by Bryan Mawr College and the Smithsonian institution along the Torngat Mountain coastline of northernmost Labrador have produced the first documented evidence of the extinct Great Auk, Pinguinus impennis, from the Labrador Peninsula. RICHARD H. JORDAN AND STORRS L. OLSON, Auk, Vol. 99 […]

An Attempt to Determine the Prey of the Great Auk

Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) Science Article 3 abstract The flightless Great Auk (?inguinus impennis), the largest of all Recent Alcidae, was exterminated in 1844 (Greenway 1958), and no one who can properly be called a naturalist ever encountered the bird inlife. As a consequence, virtually no details are known of its behavior or ecology. One […]

NOTICE OF THE REMAIN’S OF THE GREAT AUK, OR GARE-FOWL, (ALGA IMPENNIS, LINN.), FOUND IN CAITHNESS; WITH NOTES OF ITS OCCURRENCE IN SCOTLAND AND OF ITS EARLY HISTORY

Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) Science Article 7 abstract As one of the editors of the ‘ Proceedings’ of the Society, I prepared the list of the various donations for the meeting of the Society held in January 1867 (‘Proceedings,’ vol. vii.), and gave a rough summary of the collection of stone, bone, and metal implements,also […]

THE GREAT AUK, PINGUINUS IMPENNIS (L.) IN GREENLAND

Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) Science Article 1 abstract This paper presents all available ‘archaeozoological, ethnohistorical, and historical evidence on the Great Auk, Pinguinus impennis (L.), in Greenland Substantial new contributions are: ( 1) the presentation of 132 Auk bones from seven archaeological sites, and ( 2) a translation of Otto Fabricius’s original handwritten notes on […]