The Last of Its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction ²⁶ Format:Hardcover monitoring of populations and processes

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The Last of Its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction ²⁶ Format:Hardcover monitoring of populations and processesHow an iconic birds 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. Gsli Plsson 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