In calm weather at dusk, the young Guillemots in the auk colony at the Bill fledged and left the breeding ledges.    From LearnThat.org.  [yourdictionary.com]

Thanks for putting me to work with that auk article! ppb.    From Wordnik.com.  [Turdus migratorius - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

The great auk is extinct and the right whale is still hunted, but.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference

Meanwhile, over at auk wrecks the independent bookstore tour continues!.    From Wordnik.com.  [TitleWave on the horizon...] Reference

“The last great auk was killed by collectors on Eldey Island in 1844.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Assembly Required] Reference

"Shra-a-a-auk!" roared the train, as with diminished speed it passed beneath them.    From Wordnik.com.  [True to his Colours The Life that Wears Best] Reference

It is not enough to put the redman as a specimen under glass along with the auk and the dinosaur.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference

The effect of the wreck of seabirds in February 1983 on auk populations on the Isle of May (Fife).    From Wordnik.com.  [Future change in processes and impacts on Arctic biota] Reference

At least one species, the great auk (Pinguinus impennis), is now extinct because of overexploitation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Arctic~ geography, climate, ecology, and people] Reference

As most news articles about the potential sale pointed out, studios are going the way of the great auk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Abbey Road and the Day Studio Music Died] Reference

Handle it as though it contained a dozen eggs of the extinct great auk, worth about a thousand dollars apiece.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon, or, the Longest Shots on Record] Reference

He would let me go about looking like a perfect auk.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Albany Depot : a Farce] Reference

The great auk species was massacred and extirpated on.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations] Reference

I'd sell auk eggs, and make my fortune, and yourn too. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein] Reference

In vain the razor-bill'd auk sails far north to Labrador.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leaves of Grass] Reference

"Abner, did you ever hear about the eggs of the great auk?".    From Wordnik.com.  [John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein] Reference

'Abner, did you ever hear about the eggs of the great auk?'.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein] Reference

Upon the whole, I thought it would not do to depend upon the auk.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land of Thor] Reference

Oolichuk continued this process until the first auk was finished.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Giant of the North Pokings Round the Pole] Reference

"You do, indeed, -- and I'm only sorry that the great auk is dead!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Skinner's Dress Suit] Reference

"Wild auk, you mean," said Professor Farrago, shaking hands with me.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Search of the Unknown] Reference

A few species, as the Labrador duck and the great auk, have perished.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the United States, Volume 1 (of 6)] Reference

But he only asked me, quite seriously, whether a great auk was really.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Search of the Unknown] Reference

It don't stand to reason; for now and then somebody gets a great auk egg.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein] Reference

I heard them call nearly every day in loud, strong voice, "Pe-auk! pe-auk!".    From Wordnik.com.  [In Nesting Time] Reference

Great auk eggs is wuth twenty-one thousand and six hundred dollars a dozen! '.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein] Reference

On the third day, too, he uttered his first genuine woodpecker cry of "pe-auk!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Brothers of the Air] Reference

Rather red in the face, I said: "Don't you believe the great auk to be extinct?".    From Wordnik.com.  [In Search of the Unknown] Reference

At latitude 50.18, about Funk Island, is one of the last refuges of the great auk.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell] Reference

But there was a deplorable lack of information about the haunts and habits of the auk.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land of Thor] Reference

"You are already celebrated as the discoverer of the mammoth and the great auk," she persisted.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Search of the Unknown] Reference

"One of the ostrich variety, my son, -- seeing that the great auk is dead," said McLaughlin solemnly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Skinner's Dress Suit] Reference

On Funk Island, a favorite breeding-place, the great auk was exterminated in 1840, and in Iceland in 1844.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation] Reference

Other creatures, such as the great auk, were destroyed for food, and others like the marten for their furs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told] Reference

'If we was to set any auk eggs next month, it'll be well on into next summer before we'd have eggs to sell.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein] Reference

Paralyzed be th 'boldness iv th' wolf, th 'camel an' th 'auk fled fr'm th' scene iv havoc, as is their wont.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Dooley Says] Reference

When I meet a brutal looking fellow I often think that he and his type may soon be as extinct as the great auk.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stark Munro Letters] Reference

"King penguin" is another of its names, from its superior size, as it is the largest of the auk or penguin family.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure] Reference