Thursday, February th at 7:00 p.m. via Zoom Nevermore: The Great Auk
Join Gerri Griswold, of White Memorial Conservation Center, for the second lecture of her four part lecture series on extinct animals.
The Great Auk, Garefowl, or Penguin of the North was a substantial sea bird whose extinction was entirely the work of humankind.
The bird’s existence ended on the morning of June 3, 1844, when the last two recorded Great Auks were killed by three fishermen on the island of Eldey off the southwest coast of Iceland.
With pictures and through the words of Errol Fuller, a world-renowned authority on extinct birds, Gerri Griswold will illustrate the epic destruction of a species.
