Remembering the Great Auk
Academy of Natural Sciences
OCTOBER 25, 2021
On a ruggedly desolate section of coastline on the southwestern tip of that frigid island stands a six foot high bronze sculpture of a Great Auk, Pinguinus pennis , a flightless bird that was driven to extinction through its excessive harvest by humans in the early 19th century. In the U.S.,
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