Extinct great auks standing on the edge of a cliff

Great auks standing on the edge of a cliff. The great auk, Pinguinus impennis, was a large, flightless alcid bird that was hunted to extinction in the mid-19th century. Riesenalk.Colour printed illustration by Heinrich Harder from Wilhelm Bolsche's Tiere der Urwelt (Animals of the Prehistoric World), Reichardt Cocoa company, Hamburg, 1908. Heinrich Harder (1858-1935) was a German landscape artist and book illustrator

Animals Of The Prehistoric World Colour-printed Extinction Heinrich Harder Hunted Natural History Prehistoric Animal Tiere Der Urwelt

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