| 单词 | great auk |
| 例句 | I named it Auk I, after the great auk, an extinct bird that couldn’t fly. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Birdlife supporter Atwood - author of the Handmaid's Tale, Oryx and Crake and the Blind Assassin - will speak at the exhibition as well as submitting a knitted great auk. Ghosts of Gone Birds: exhibition enlists artists to save endangered species 2011-08-24T06:00:02Z Anglican saints were always hunted to extinction, just like great auks. Julian Barnes: a tribute to Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford 2012-08-24T21:55:03Z McGrain’s subjects have included, among others, the passenger pigeon, the great auk, the Labrador duck, the heath hen, and the Carolina parakeet. The Forest Elephants of the Central African Republic Are in Peril 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Some of these birds are well known: the great auk and the dodo, for example. A Roundup of Holiday Coffee Table Books 2012-11-22T19:55:15Z The sculptures—figures of polar bears, red knot birds, Eskimo curlew, and the extinct great auk—are covered with tar, lime, and glue. Confronting my Exxon Valdez horror 25 years later 2014-03-26T23:00:00Z He noted a reference to the great auk on the White Album track “Wind in Our Sail,” “which is a bird that became extinct two centuries ago.” Rivers Cuomo of Weezer Taps His Inner Beach Boy 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Like Monty Python's infamous dead parrot, the great auk that author Margaret Atwood is knitting probably shuffled off his mortal coil, ran down the curtain and joined the choir invisible 150 years ago. Ghosts of Gone Birds: exhibition enlists artists to save endangered species 2011-08-24T06:00:02Z Both are great auks making do in a world of modernity and muddle. Julian Barnes: a tribute to Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford 2012-08-24T21:55:03Z The mourned dead, like the great auk, the penguin of the north, only occasionally intrude. We Aren’t Destroying the Earth 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z Many sights described in his vivid prose can no longer be seen, like the great auk, which the naturalist mistakenly called a penguin. Audubon’s writings on ocean voyages and seabirds complicate his legacy 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z This puts great auks in the same doomed-by-humans category as the passenger pigeon and the moa. Why the Great Auk Is Gone for Good 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z By about 1850, the great auk was extinct; the last two known specimens were hunted down by fishermen on Eldey Island, off the coast of Iceland. Great auk: Humans hunted seabird to extinction 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Man has long imperilled beast, as reflected by the extinction of the passenger pigeon, great auk, and Tasmanian tiger. Pandas, Pangolins, and China’s Fitful Attempts at Wildlife Conservation 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z The murre hunt has a long tradition in Newfoundland, where seabirds, from great auks to eiders, provided sailors with much-needed protein after the long voyage from Europe. Hunting ‘Turr’ in Newfoundland’s Frigid Waters 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z No longer hunted for its meat and down, the great auk and its eggs became a target for their scientific value. Scientist under attack after he kills bird that took decades to find 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z Not so long ago, the northern seas were full of great auks. Why the Great Auk Is Gone for Good 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z In fact, the genetic timeline Dr Thomas and her colleagues were able to create showed, at the time the intensive great auk hunting began, the species was doing "really well". Great auk: Humans hunted seabird to extinction 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z The idea was to save the punt, and the artisans who build them, from the fate of the great auk and the Beothuks. Can an Inn Save Newfoundland’s Fogo Island Ectopistes migratorius, once numbering in the billions, joined the ranks of the dodo and the great auk. A third of US birds 'in decline' 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z The last confirmed sighting off a great auk took place on an island off Iceland, in 1844, but it’s likely that stray birds lived on for years, even decades. A Century of Extinction 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z Museums and merchants started paying top dollar for great auk eggs and skins. Why the Great Auk Is Gone for Good 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z “Once There Were Billions: Vanished Birds of North America” An exhibition of specimens and illustrations of extinct birds includes the passenger pigeon, heath hen, great auk and Carolina parakeet. Going Out Guide for the District of Columbia, June 19-25, 2014 The great auk, a flightless bird that stood nearly 3 feet tall and vaguely resembled a penguin, was last sighted around 1844. Can an Inn Save Newfoundland’s Fogo Island Dukes and dodos, great families and great auks, one felt that they would soon all be extinct together. The Vanity Girl 2012-04-12T02:00:26.883Z An Awkward Name.—'Arry, on a marine excursion, hearing mention made of the two sea-birds the great auk and the little auk, inquired if the little auk was a sparrow-'awk. Mr. Punch's Cockney Humour 2012-01-17T03:00:15.233Z In this way, the great auk went extinct. Why the Great Auk Is Gone for Good 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z A number of eggs have been sold in London, the prices ranging from £200 down to £42, this last being much less than prices paid for eggs of the great auk. Animals of the Past 2011-11-16T03:00:27.497Z It has witnessed the extinction of the great auk, so utterly swept off the face of the earth that the skin, or even the egg of one, is a small fortune to the possessor. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z When I marry, my ambition will soar beyond being bottled in alcohol or boxed in sawdust or cotton wool, like a centipede or a cracked egg of the great auk. A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z The great auk or gair-fowl, a bird about 3 feet in length, used to be plentiful in northerly regions, and also visited the British shores, but has become extinct. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis So they compared DNA from 41 different great auks, including the two endlings killed in Iceland. Why the Great Auk Is Gone for Good 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z But then, the great auk is somewhat of a fad, and there are just enough eggs in existence to bring one into the market every little while. Animals of the Past 2011-11-16T03:00:27.497Z The dodo, quagga, passenger pigeon, great auk, aurochs, Key deer, bison, African elephant, gorilla, tiger—there's an awful list. Thy Rocks and Rills The stormy petrel is supposed to herald bad weather, and the great auk to tell that land is very near. Storyology Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore Smaller creatures, birds like the dodo and the great auk and a whole troop of others less familiar, have disappeared and are disappearing under the human blight. More Science From an Easy Chair But how did the great auks maintain such high diversity even though they couldn’t fly? Why the Great Auk Is Gone for Good 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z The extermination of the great auk in European waters was somewhat similar. Animals of the Past 2011-11-16T03:00:27.497Z "One of the ostrich variety, my son,—seeing that the great auk is dead," said McLaughlin solemnly. Skinner's Dress Suit It don't stand to reason; for now and then somebody gets a great auk egg. John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein The great auk is but a memory; the bittern booms more rarely in our eastern marshes; and now they tell me Brigadiers are extinct. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-25 For instance, assume there were once 2 million great auks in the world. Why the Great Auk Is Gone for Good 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Besides, the number of eggs of the great auk is a fixed quantity, while no one knows how many more of Æpyornis remain to be discovered in the swamps of Madagascar. Animals of the Past 2011-11-16T03:00:27.497Z "You do, indeed,—and I'm only sorry that the great auk is dead!" Skinner's Dress Suit "Abner, did you ever hear about the eggs of the great auk?" John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein At latitude 50.18, about Funk Island, is one of the last refuges of the great auk. A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell At the time of which we write, the great auk was found in myriads on the low rocky islets on the eastern shores of Newfoundland. The Crew of the Water Wagtail The supposed decimation of the Moas by severe winters has been already discussed, and the extermination of the great auk in European waters was indirectly due to natural causes. Animals of the Past 2011-11-16T03:00:27.497Z Other creatures, such as the great auk, were destroyed for food, and others like the marten for their furs. The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told In fact, had his suppositions been nearly correct, the remaining specimens of the great auk would have been birds of very temperate dispositions, so far as latitude was concerned. John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein It has become a giant, terrible bird, the great auk of music, that seizes you in its talons and spirals into the empyrean. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Not only was the great auk slain in vast numbers, for the sake of fresh food, but it was salted by tons for future use and sale. The Crew of the Water Wagtail "If," said I, "you have anything in this region more important to science than the great auk, I should be very glad to know about it." In Search of the Unknown What happened to the great auk and the Labrador duck in the Gulf? Supplement to Animal Sanctuaries in Labrador Supplement to an Address Presented by Lt.-Colonel William Wood, F.R.S.C. Before the Second Annual Meeting of the Commission of Conservation in January, 1911 Now the p'int is to find out where them great auks lay. John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein Some very old men can still remember the great auk, which is now as extinct as the dodo. Draft of a Plan for Beginning Animal Sanctuaries in Labrador Some of the party, however, had more of the hunter’s than the fisher’s spirit in them, and prepared to make raids on the homes of the great auk, or to ramble in the forests. The Crew of the Water Wagtail It is generally accepted," I replied, sarcastically, "that the great auk has been extinct for years. In Search of the Unknown The great auk and the Labrador duck have both become utterly extinct within living memory. Animal Sanctuaries in Labrador An Address Presented by Lt.-Colonel William Wood, F.R.S.C. before the Second Annual Meeting of the Commission of Conservation at Quebec, January, 1911 I asked the value of a great auk's egg, and was surprised to learn that a specimen had recently been sold at auction for something like three hundred pounds. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, January 29, 1919 Connecticut: Passenger pigeon, Eskimo curlew, great auk, Labrador duck, upland plover, heath hen, wild turkey; puma, gray wolf, Canada lynx, black bear, elk. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation The creature which he had thus killed with man’s most primitive weapon was a specimen of the great auk—a bird which is now extinct. The Crew of the Water Wagtail Rather red in the face, I said: "Don't you believe the great auk to be extinct?" In Search of the Unknown One of the genuine great auks"—his voice fell to a whisper—one of the genuine great auks was made by me." The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents I inquired whether all the great auks' eggs that came on the market were genuine, or whether "faked" specimens were to be met with. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, January 29, 1919 When I meet a brutal looking fellow I often think that he and his type may soon be as extinct as the great auk. The Stark Munro Letters The river, too, seems to change its character, and become a pale serpent, uncoiling itself from some mountain fastness where no living creatures besides great auks and carrion birds, dwell. Yorkshire "You are already celebrated as the discoverer of the mammoth and the great auk," she persisted. In Search of the Unknown My dear fellow, half the great auks in the world are about as genuine as the handkerchief of Saint Veronica, as the Holy Coat of Treves. The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents The extinction of the Labrador duck and the great auk have often been deplored. My Native Land The United States: its Wonders, its Beauties, and its People; with Descriptive Notes, Character Sketches, Folk Lore, Traditions, Legends and History, for the Amusement of the Old and the Instruction of the Young The great auk species was massacred and extirpated on Funk Island because it could not get away from its sordid enemies who destroyed it for a paltry supply of oil. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations The modern enquirer will recognize, perhaps, the great auk which once abounded on the coast, but which is now extinct. The Mariner of St. Malo : A chronicle of the voyages of Jacques Cartier Then I asked him whether these birds of Halyard's were really great auks, and he replied, somewhat indifferently, that he supposed they were—at least, nobody had ever before seen such birds near Port-of-Waves. In Search of the Unknown You know I have made some dodos and a great auk? The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents The last skeleton of the great auk was sold for $600, the last skin for $650, and the last egg brought the fabulous sum of $1,500. My Native Land The United States: its Wonders, its Beauties, and its People; with Descriptive Notes, Character Sketches, Folk Lore, Traditions, Legends and History, for the Amusement of the Old and the Instruction of the Young Handle it as though it contained a dozen eggs of the extinct great auk, worth about a thousand dollars apiece. Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon, or, the Longest Shots on Record But if you hear of any great auks being found, kindly throw a table-cloth over their heads and notify the authorities at the new Zoological Gardens in Bronx Park, New York. In Search of the Unknown It doesn't matter; nothing can add to the despair of a man who has lost two great auks. In Search of the Unknown |
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