大海雀

大海雀，又叫大海鳥、大海燕，係一種絕咗種又唔識飛嘅雀，曾廣泛喺大西洋周邊嘅島上生存，但係因為人類大量捕殺而滅絕。

大海雀外表同企鵝有啲似，有時又叫做北極大企鵝。2009年6月9號，民主建港協進聯盟副主席張國鈞喺香港電台節目《左右紅藍綠》入面話「北極係一個人少企鵝多嘅地方」，可能係想講大海雀。

Bibliography 

Database entry includes justification for why this species is listed as extinct
 Brodkorb, Pierce (1960): Great Auk and Common Murre from a Florida Midden. Auk 77(3): 342-343. PDF fulltext

Fuller, Errol (1999): The Great Auk. Abrams, New York.

Greenway, James C., Jr. (1967): Great Auk. In: Extinct and Vanishing Birds of the World, 2nd edition: 271-291. Dover, New York. QL676.7.G7
 Haswell-Smith, Hamish (1996). The Scottish Islands
 Jordan, Richard H. & Olson, Storrs L. (1982): First Record of the Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) from Labrador. Auk 99(1): 167-168. PDF fulltext

Livezey, Bradley C. (1988): Morphometrics of flightlessness in the Alcidae. Auk 105(4): 681–698. PDF fulltext
 Luther, Dieter (1996): Riesenalk. In: Die ausgestorbenen Vögel der Welt, 4th edition (Die neue Brehm-Bücherei 424): 78-84. Westarp-Wissenschaften, Magdeburg; Spektrum, Heidelberg. ISBN 3-89432-213-6 [in German]

Moum, Truls; Arnason, Ulfur & Árnason, Einar (2002): Mitochondrial DNA Sequence Evolution and Phylogeny of the Atlantic Alcidae, Including the Extinct Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis). Molecular Biology and Evolution 19(9): 1434–1439. PDF fulltext

Tuck, J. A. (1976): Ancient peoples of Port au Choix: The Excavation of an Archaic Indian Cemetery in Newfoundland. Newfoundland Social and Economic Studies 17.
 Weigel, Penelope Hermes (1958): Great Auk Remains from a Florida Shell Midden. Auk 75(2): 215–216. PDF fulltext

延伸閱讀 

Auk Egg Auction Time Magazine, November 26 1934.
 Great Auk: Audubon fact sheet
 3D view of specimen RMNH 110.104 at Naturalis, Leiden (requires QuickTime browser plugin).

資料 
 BirdLife International (2004). Pinguinus impennis，2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species，IUCN 2006。擷取於11 May 2006 Database entry includes justification for why this species is listed as extinct 
 Greenway, James C., Jr. (1967): Great Auk. In: Extinct and Vanishing Birds of the World, 2nd edition: 271-291. Dover, New York. QL676.7.G7

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