Great Auk
Pinguinus impennis(Linnaeus, C, 1758)
English (US) Great Auk
The Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Alcidae (Auks, Puffins, and Murres) in the order Charadriiformes.
Range: bred eastern Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Faroe Islands, British Isles, and Denmark; wintered to eastern USA and Mediterranean; extinct, last reported 1844Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Pinguinus impennis
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Extinct
- English (US)
- Great Auk
- Described by
- (Linnaeus, C, 1758)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Alca impennis
- Described by
- (Linnaeus, C, 1758)
- Type locality
- Arctic Europe.
- Original description
- Systema Naturæ per Regna Tria Naturæ, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata 1 p.130
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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