🐧Great Auk

Pinguinus impennis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Az óriásalka (Pinguinus impennis, vagy korábbi nevén Alca impennis) kihalt madár, a Pinguinus nem egyetlen ismert faja. Nagytestű, röpképtelen faj az alkafélék (Alcidae) családjában. A 14. századig költött az Atlanti-óceán északi medencéjében, a Kanada, Grönland, Izland, Írország és Skócia partjai közelében lévő kis szigeteken és sziklazátonyokon.

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Measurements

Conservation status

EXExtinct

IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.

Key measurements

Body mass: not recorded
Body length: not recorded
Shoulder height: not recorded
Top speed: not recorded
Bite force: not recorded
Maximum lifespan: not recorded

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This animal is extinct

Assessed Extinct on the IUCN Red List, 2021. Everything on this page — the measurements, the photos, the videos — is a record of an animal that is gone.

Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Great Auk

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Standing height

0.7 mnot stated

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"Great auks stood 70 cm tall and weighed up to 5 kg." Other compilations state 75-85 cm, usually attributed to Livezey 1988 (Auk 105:681), which is paywalled and was not verifiable; the 70 cm ADW figure is the one directly checked.

Source: Dewey 2009, Animal Diversity Web account: Pinguinus impennis, https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Pinguinus_impennis/ · see citation

Not recorded for Great Auk yet: body mass, body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.

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