The Great Auk Or Garefowl Its History Archaeology And Remains
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The Great Auk Or Garefowl
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Author : Symington Grieve
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
The Great Auk Or Garefowl written by Symington Grieve and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Great auk categories.
The great auk (Pinguinus impennis, formerly Alca impennis), a flightless bird of the north Atlantic, became extinct in the mid-1850s because of over-hunting - apart from being used as a food source and as fish-bait, its down was used for feather beds, and efforts in the early nineteenth century to reduce the slaughter were not effective. The last breeding pair was killed in 1844. This 1885 work by Scottish naturalist and scientist Symington Grieve (1850-1932) collects together 'a considerable amount of literature bearing upon the 'History, Archaeology, and Remains' of this extinct bird'. The material includes articles on the historic distribution of the great auk, its known habits, its various names, and information on all the surviving specimens, whether stuffed, skeletal, bones, or eggs. The book is illustrated with drawings and lithographs of auk remains, and an appendix supplies historical and contemporary documents on the auk from all over Europe.
The Great Auk Or Garefowl Alca Impennis Linn
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Author : Symington Grieve
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1885
The Great Auk Or Garefowl Alca Impennis Linn written by Symington Grieve and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1885 with Auks categories.
The Great Auk Or Garefowl Its History Arch Ology And Remains
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Author : Symington Grieve
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1885
The Great Auk Or Garefowl Its History Arch Ology And Remains written by Symington Grieve and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1885 with categories.
The Great Auk Or Garefowl Its History Archaeology And Remains
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Author : Grieve
language : en
Publisher: Sagwan Press
Release Date : 2015-08-23
The Great Auk Or Garefowl Its History Archaeology And Remains written by Grieve and has been published by Sagwan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-23 with History categories.
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The Great Auk Or Garefowl
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Author : Symington Grieve
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007-01-01
The Great Auk Or Garefowl written by Symington Grieve and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-01 with Nature categories.
A reprint of Symington Grieve's classic treatise on the great auk, an extinct flightless bird of northern seas.
The Great Auk Or Garefowl Alca Impennis Linn Its History Archaeology And Remains
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Author : Symington Grieve
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1885
The Great Auk Or Garefowl Alca Impennis Linn Its History Archaeology And Remains written by Symington Grieve and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1885 with Alcidae categories.
The Great Auk Or Garefowl
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Author : Symington Grieve
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-03-05
The Great Auk Or Garefowl written by Symington Grieve and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-05 with Nature categories.
This 1885 work collects together information on the extinct great auk, including its distribution, various names, and physical remains.
The Last Of Its Kind
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Author : Gísli Pálsson
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2024-02-06
The Last Of Its Kind written by Gísli Pálsson and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-06 with Science categories.
How an iconic bird’s final days exposed the reality of human-caused extinction The great auk is one of the most tragic and documented examples of extinction. A flightless bird that bred primarily on the remote islands of the North Atlantic, the last of its kind were killed in Iceland in 1844. Gísli Pálsson draws on firsthand accounts from the Icelanders who hunted the last great auks to bring to life a bygone age of Victorian scientific exploration while offering vital insights into the extinction of species. Pálsson vividly recounts how British ornithologists John Wolley and Alfred Newton set out for Iceland to collect specimens only to discover that the great auks were already gone. At the time, the Victorian world viewed extinction as an impossibility or trivialized it as a natural phenomenon. Pálsson chronicles how Wolley and Newton documented the fate of the last birds through interviews with the men who killed them, and how the naturalists’ Icelandic journey opened their eyes to the disappearance of species as a subject of scientific concern—and as something that could be caused by humans. Blending a richly evocative narrative with rare, unpublished material as well as insights from ornithology, anthropology, and Pálsson’s own North Atlantic travels, The Last of Its Kind reveals how the saga of the great auk opens a window onto the human causes of mass extinction.
Great Auk Islands A Field Biologist In The Arctic
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Author : Tim Birkhead
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2010-10-30
Great Auk Islands A Field Biologist In The Arctic written by Tim Birkhead and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-30 with Nature categories.
The story of the author's research expeditions in the Canadian Arctic, this book is for professional and amateur ornithologists, students in ecology and animal behaviour. The Arctic is one of the world's last great wildernesses: a place of outstanding beauty, history and extraordinary wildlife in which seabirds form an important component of a rich, marine environment. Like many other remote regions, it is under threat from human activities, but to protect it we need to understand it. That understanding can come only through scientific research and the central threat of this book is to examine how such research is actually done. It describes the business of conducting biological studies on seabirds in remote parts of eastern Canada. Several themes are engagingly interwoven: the sheer beauty of the Arctic environment, the intriguing biology of its wildlife, and the discovery and exploitation of enormous seabird colonies, including the destruction of the Great Auk. Tim Birkhead describes in personal detail the different facets of research and brings to life both the difficulties and the excitement of working in the Arctic. What is it like setting up a camp for four months on a remote and uninhabited island not far from the North Pole? How does it feel to commute daily by inflatable boat amidst icebergs to study-areas located on towering cliffs, set between ice-blue glaciers? What do you do when a Polar bear decides that you have invaded its Arctic home? Why are the seabird colonies in the high Arctic so enormous? What do we know about lifestyle of the extinct Great Auk? In 1992 Canada's legendary cod fishery was finally destroyed - what are the consequences of this for other wildlife? These are just a few of the questions dealt with in this book. Our future as a species depends upon science and the understanding it brings of the world we live in. The work of scientists often appears obscure, but in this book, Tim Birkhead has used his experience of seven summers in the Arctic to write an accessible and straightforward account of how research is actually done in the field. The text is enriched by David Quinn's illustrations, and by numerous photographs in both black and white, and colour.
Bibliography Of Fossil Vertebrates Exclusive Of North America 1509 1927
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Author : Alfred Sherwood Romer, Nelda E. Wright, Tilly Edinger, and Richard Van Frank
language : en
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Release Date : 1962
Bibliography Of Fossil Vertebrates Exclusive Of North America 1509 1927 written by Alfred Sherwood Romer, Nelda E. Wright, Tilly Edinger, and Richard Van Frank and has been published by Geological Society of America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with categories.