The great auk (Pinguinus impennis), also known as the penguin or garefowl, is an extinct species of flightless alcid that first appeared around 400,000 years ago and became extinct in the mid-19th century. It was the only modern species in the genus Pinguinus.

It is a lesson in what can happen to an ocean-dwelling species when human greed runs rampant. Great auks were once common in the waters of the North Atlantic. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) reports that the birds lived in scattered colonies across the ocean.

The great auk (Pinguinus impennis) is a species of flightless alcid that became extinct in the mid-19th century. It was the only modern species in the genus Pinguinus . It is not closely related to the birds now known as penguins, which were discovered later by Europeans and so named by sailors because of their physical resemblance to the great ...

With defeat by the United States, France and Spain in the War of American Independence, Great Britain lost its 13 American colonies and rebuilt a Second British Empire based in Asia and Africa. As a result, British culture, and its technological, political, constitutional, and linguistic influence, became worldwide.

大不列颠及北爱尔兰联合王国（英语：The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland），简称英国，首都伦敦。 位于欧洲西部。 是由大不列颠岛上的英格兰、苏格兰、威尔士以及爱尔兰岛东北部的北爱尔兰共同组成的一个联合王国。

The great auk was a large bird, that could not fly. People hunted it for meat and feathers. It grew rare, because it was too easy to kill, and the ones left could not breed fast enough to make up for the lost ones. The last known great auks (there were two auks) were killed on June 3, 1844 in Iceland. [1] It lived mostly in the water, like a duck.

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, for short known as Britain, UK and the United Kingdom, located in western Europe. It is an island a shape of which reminds of a rabbit. The UK is surrounded by Atlantic Ocean, Celtic Sea to the south-southwest, the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south.

大不列顛暨北愛爾蘭聯合王國（英語： United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ），通稱英国 [註 6] [12] [13] ，亦簡稱联合王国 [註 7] （ United Kingdom ，缩写作 UK ）或不列颠（ Britain ），是位於西歐並具有海外領地 [註 8] 的主權國家，由英格蘭、威爾斯、蘇格蘭及 ...

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The Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) was a remarkable species of flightless bird belonging to the alcid family. Native to the North Atlantic region, this penguin-like bird was characterized by its distinctive black and white plumage, with a large white patch on its belly.