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@NinaAntonia13 Echo and Narcissus (1903) by John William Waterhouse
Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island (1864) by William Stanley Haseltine
In 1844, the last definitely recorded pair of great auks were killed on an Icelandic island. Europeans decimated their numbers through using them as a food source, using their down for insulation of clothing, etc., and by depriving them of their natural habitats.