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Emperor Penguins
Aptenodytes forsteri, Antarctica
Macaroni Penguins Eudyptes chrysolophus,
Antarctica & Islands
Great Auk,
Extinct
Before similar looking birds were discovered in the
southern hemisphere, the Great Auk or Garefowl was also known as a Penguin, although it is
unrelated to true penguins. The Great Auk inhabited the coasts and islands of the
North Atlantic from Virginia and Ireland to Greenland and Iceland almost to the Arctic
Circle. The flightless bird was easily captured. They and their eggs fed many
sailors. Shorebirds that breed in a limited number of colonies at only certain
locations are highly susceptible to concentrated stresses and the Great Auk was extinct by
mid Nineteenth Century.
Razorbill
Alca torda, North Atlantic
Coasts
Atlantic Puffin, Fratercula arctica, North
Atlantic
Thick-billed Murre
Uria lomvia, Circumpolar, Arctic & near Arctic
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