The Tragic Tale of the Great Auk

The Tragic Tale of the Great Auk book cover — She is a GREAT AUK JAN THORNHILL GROUNDWOOD BOOKS HOUSE OF ANANSI PRESS TORONTO BERKELEY

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The Tragic Tale of the Great Auk — page 2 — BEHOLD THE GREAT AUK The Gejrfugl The northern penguin Less than four centuries ago hundreds of thousands of these magnificent birds lived in the frigid seas between Europe and North America Now there are none So what happened It's a complicated story Although humans as you may suspect did indeed have a heavy hand in the Great Auk s extinction there were other factors that contributed to its demise not the least of which was the bird's own E E TAY anatomy and behavior

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