Before it was hunted to extinction in the 1840s, the great auk inhabited an ecological niche equivalent to that of penguins in the southern hemisphere. Flightless, and able to nest only on low-lying ...

IMAGINATION has long had a large share in the accounts given of the Gare-fowl or Great Auk, notwithstanding the efforts of those who have tried to set forth nothing but the truth on the subject ...

One of six extinct Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) eggs in the museum collection ... One of the oldest surviving nests from Australia. A nest of Eastern Spinebill (Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris) ...

Pictured below is the last remaining specimen of a British great auk, a flightless seabird driven to extinction in the nineteenth century. It is a lesson in what can happen to an ocean-dwelling ...

Tim Birkhead, Kaliane Bradley and Mark Nowers discuss our fascination with the Great Auk and Victorian explorers, and efforts to help turtle doves, with Tom Sutcliffe. Show more The Great Auk ...

Marbled Murrelets are quite unique in that, unlike other seabirds in the auk family, they nest solitarily either in trees or on the ground (a small percentage of nests) often many kilometres from ...