Significados de great auk en inglés

Want great auk! I searched the web for animals he craved.

You know I have made some dodos and a great auk?

He sold his great auk chicks at a significant profit.

The extinction of the Labrador duck and the great auk have often been deplored.

The great auk and the Labrador duck have both become utterly extinct within living memory.

Then, sir, I'd go into the great auk business.

We must be careful lest, like the dodo and the great auk, the breed becomes extinct.

And the great auk's eggs too!

Other creatures, such as the great auk, were destroyed for food, and others like the marten for their furs.

The modern enquirer will recognize, perhaps, the great auk which once abounded on the coast, but which is now extinct.

Handle it as though it contained a dozen eggs of the extinct great auk, worth about a thousand dollars apiece.

Wild turkey, passenger pigeon, Labrador duck, whooping crane, sandhill crane, black-throated bunting, great auk, Eskimo curlew.-(William Brewster, W.P.

A cloak of the skin of the great auk would bring $8,000 or $10,000.

He reminded Lilly of a great auk, something alcidine in the thin cheeks with the mouth cutting so widely toward the ears.

On Funk Island, a favorite breeding-place, the great auk was exterminated in 1840, and in Iceland in 1844.

They do, however, take place, since within comparatively few years whole species have completely disappeared; for example, the great auk and the passenger pigeon.