Great auk (Pen Gwyn in Welsh), or, because the great auk had such large white circles on its head. When European explorers discovered what today are known as penguins in the Southern Hemisphere, they noticed their similar appearance to the great auk and named them after this bird, although biologically, they are not closely related. Whalers also lumped the northern and southern birds together under the common name "woggins". Standing about tall and weighing approximately as adult birds, the flightless great auk was the second-largest member of both its family and the order Charadriiformes, surpassed only by the mancalline "Miomancalla". The great
Birds of Prey (band) carried in national stores including Wal-Mart, FYE and Virgin Records super stores. The band released "Momma" and "Juvie" to their Myspace before allowing the album to be streamed in its entirety the week of its release at www.thehellpreacher.info. With the release of their third album the band has finally set their sights on playing live and have scheduled their first live show to be at Maryland Deathfest VII, May 28–30 alongside metal giants such as Eyehategod, Converge, Incantation and 16. Birds of Prey (band) Birds of Prey is a Southern-influenced death metal supergroup hailing from Richmond, Virginia. They released their