Charles Darwin and Carl Linnaeus assumed that extinction was either impossible or something that took place over millennia.

Two preserved great auk specimens displayed at a museum in 1971. The last pair of great auks were killed in 1844.

Island ranger Jonathan Ford first visited in pursuit of the Great Auk in 2005. He now lives in Papa Westray and shows visitors its sights and its birds. "I became obsessed with black and white ...