Charadriiformes / Alcidae / Pinguinus
Great Auk
Pinguinus impennis
IUCN: Extinct
Taxonomy
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Alcidae
- Genus
- Pinguinus
Distribution
bred eastern Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Faroe Islands, British Isles, and Denmark; wintered to eastern USA and Mediterranean; extinct, last reported 1844
Data Sources
Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.
