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Description: | The Great Auk was a large seabird that once lived throughout the North Atlantic. It was totally flightless, with tiny wings, but was an expert swimmer and spent most of its life at sea. The large, flightless birds were easy to catch on land, and breeding colonies were used as a source of food by sailors and fishermen. The birds were slaughtered for their feathers, meat and eggs. Fewer and fewer were seen, until the last recorded sighting, in 1844. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | North East fossils natural world | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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