garefowl
Alca impennis latin

This has led to an alternative English common name for the bird, "garefowl" or "gairfowl".

Three men from St Kilda caught a single "garefowl", noticing its little wings and the large white spot on its head.

In earlier times, The Great Auk was also known as the garefowl, from the Norse, "Geirfugl".

The garefowl or great auk, largest of the family and a non-flyer, bred in southern Labrador, Greenland, Iceland and north Britain.

In Fraserburgh, Scotland, the author boards the Garefowl, a small trawler heading out into the overfished North Sea, and notes the anger and despair in his companions' voices.

It was volcanic rock surrounded by cliffs, which made it inaccessible to humans, and the last refuge for the Great Auk (which was also called "Garefowl" - "geirfugl" in Icelandic).

The 'Large Penguins' referred to in English accounts should really be the Great Auk (Alca impennis).

The Great Auk was one of the 4400 animal species originally described by Carolus Linnaeus in his 18th-century work, Systema Naturae, in which it was named Alca impennis.

Über die letzten Vorkommnisse des Riesen-Alks (Alca impennis), 1883 - On the last occurrences of the Great Auk (Alca impennis).