In the process the birds’ single egg was trampled – the last known of the great auks. It’s the events leading up to this final obliteration on Eldey that Tim Birkhead deals with in the first half of ...

Victorian hunters, explorers and collectors feature strongly in the story of the Great Auk. The writer Kaliane Bradley places the 19th century polar explorer Commander Graham Gore at the heart of her ...

From cliffside seabird breeding sites to one of the largest sandpiper havens on the planet, Atlantic Canada is rife with ...

The ViewPoint Hotel was included in Time’s list of the World’s Greatest Places in 2025, published by the magazine Thursday.

Since then, they have also added A Little Auk, an outdoor restaurant named after the bird but also as a joke on its initially “awkward” schedule, opening only during the week to give weekend g ...

Newton, in which he gives his version of the history of the egg of this extinct bird, which was recently ... Grieve's important work on “The Great Auk, its history, archæology, and remains ...

In early February our Delta flight from Paris to Minneapolis just missed the very southern tip of Greenland and scratched my ...

White-billed Diver, Ring Ouzel, Great Auk, European Serin and House Bunting all feature in the April 2025 issue of Birdwatch, ...