The Great Auk Or Garefowl Its History Archaeology And Remains

Author : Symington Grieve
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Great auk
ISBN : 1316155439

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The Great Auk, Or Garefowl by Symington Grieve Pdf

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.

Author : Symington Grieve
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Auks
ISBN : UCD:31175001988495

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The Great Auk, Or Garefowl (Alca Impennis, Linn.) by Symington Grieve Pdf

Author : Symington Grieve
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:560766002

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The great auk, or garefowl ... its history, archæology, and remains by Symington Grieve Pdf

Author : Grieve
Publisher : Sagwan Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1340097885

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The Great Auk, Or Garefowl: Its History, Archaeology, and Remains by Grieve Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Symington Grieve
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1930585357

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The Great Auk, Or Garefowl by Symington Grieve Pdf

A reprint of Symington Grieve's classic treatise on the great auk, an extinct flightless bird of northern seas.

Author : Symington Grieve
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781108081474

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The Great Auk, or Garefowl by Symington Grieve Pdf

This 1885 work collects together information on the extinct great auk, including its distribution, various names, and physical remains.

Author : Grieve
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1017745803

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The Great Auk, Or Garefowl: Its History, Archaeology, and Remains by Grieve Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Geology
ISBN : UCBK:C084557481

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Memoir by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alfred Sherwood Romer, Nelda E. Wright, Tilly Edinger, and Richard Van Frank
Publisher : Geological Society of America
Page : 1640 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780813710877

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Bibliography of Fossil Vertebrates Exclusive of North America, 1509-1927 by Alfred Sherwood Romer, Nelda E. Wright, Tilly Edinger, and Richard Van Frank Pdf

Author : Gísli Pálsson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691230993

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The Last of Its Kind by Gísli Pálsson Pdf

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.

Author : Jan Thornhill
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781554989928

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The Tragic Tale of the Great Auk by Jan Thornhill Pdf

For hundreds of thousands of years, Great Auks thrived. And then they were gone ... For hundreds of thousands of years Great Auks thrived in the icy seas of the North Atlantic, bobbing on the waves, diving for fish and struggling up onto rocky shores to mate and hatch their fluffy chicks. But by 1844, not a single one of these magnificent birds was alive. In this stunningly illustrated non-fiction picture book, award-winning author and illustrator Jan Thornhill tells the tragic story of these birds that “weighed as much as a sack of potatoes and stood as tall as a preteen’s waist.” Their demise came about in part because of their anatomy. They could swim swiftly underwater, but their small wings meant they couldn’t fly and their feet were so far back on their bodies, they couldn’t walk very well. Still the birds managed to escape their predators much of the time ... until humans became seafarers. Great Auks were pursued first by Vikings, then by Inuit, Beothuk and finally European hunters. Their numbers rapidly dwindled. They became collectors’ items — their skins were stuffed for museums, to be displayed along with their beautiful eggs. (There are some amazing stories about these stuffed auks — one was stolen from a German museum during WWII by Russian soldiers; another was flown to Iceland and given a red-carpet welcome at the airport.) Although undeniably tragic, the final demise of the Great Auk led to the birth of the conservation movement. Laws were eventually passed to prevent the killing of birds during the nesting season, and similar laws were later extended to other wildlife species. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.3 Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.4 Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words or phrases in a text relevant to a grade 4 topic or subject area.

Author : Tim Birkhead
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781408137857

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Great Auk Islands; a field biologist in the Arctic by Tim Birkhead Pdf

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.

Author : T. C Smout
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748653973

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Exploring Environmental History by T. C Smout Pdf

This volume brings together the best of T. C. Smout's recent articles and contributions to books and journals on the topic of environmental history.

Author : Lionel Walter Rothschild Baron Rothschild
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547582779

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Extinct Birds by Lionel Walter Rothschild Baron Rothschild Pdf

"Extinct Birds" by Lionel Walter Rothschild Baron Rothschild. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Christopher Cokinos
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1585427225

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Hope Is the Thing with Feathers by Christopher Cokinos Pdf

A prizewinning poet and nature writer weaves together natural history, biology, sociology, and personal narrative to tell the story of the lives, habitats, and deaths of six extinct bird species.