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They became extinct in the mid-1800s as a result of human exploitation. Men not only massacred the birds for food, they also gathered the eggs of the auk to supplement their diets. The islands where they had nested remain largely uninhabited by humans.

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The Great Auk was a flightless bird, the habitat of which was temperate and sub-arctic waters of the North Atlantic. It is now extinct. Its range extended from Canada to Norway, including Greenland, Iceland and the British Isles. Apart from during the breeding season, the Great Auk remained in the waters of the North Atlantic, only going ashore to mate and nest. The breeding colonies were on remote, rocky islands along the coasts, wherever this large, flightless bird could access the shoreline. They migrated south during the winter: Great Auk Bones have even been found in Florida and Gibraltar.

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they were found in the cold north Atlantic waters along the coast of Canada

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It ate fish and crustaceans.

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it did this because it did

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