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Definition of Alca torda

Alca torda
Razorbill Ra"zor*bill, n. (Zo["o]l.) (a) A species of auk (Alca torda) common in the Arctic seas. See Auk, and Illust. in Appendix. (b) See Cutwater, 3.

Meaning of Alca torda from wikipedia

- The razorbill (Alca torda) is a North Atlantic colonial seabird and the only extant member of the genus Alca of the family Alcidae, the auks. It is the...
- Alca is a genus of charadriiform bird that contains a single extant species, the razorbill (Alca torda). Many fossil species are known, the oldest dating...
- family name Alcidae comes from the genus Alca given by Carl Linnaeus in 1758 for the razorbill (Alca torda) from the Norwegian word alke. Auks are superficially...
- eighteenth-century work Systema Naturae, in which it was given the binomial Alca impennis. The name Alca is a Latin derivative of the Scandinavian word for razorbills...
- comparative study of the diet of Guillemots Uria aalge and Razorbills Alca torda killed during the Tricolor oil incident in the south-eastern North Sea...
- (A) Common murre, Uria aalge Thick-billed murre, Uria lomvia Razorbill, Alca torda (A) Pigeon guillemot, Cepphus columba Spectacled guillemot, Cepphus carbo...
- Aethia psittacula LC Pigeon guillemot, Cepphus columba LC Razorbill, Alca torda NT Rhinoceros auklet, Cerorhinca monocerata LC Scripps's murrelet, Synthliboramphus...
- Alle alle (A) Common murre (arao común), Uria aalge Razorbill (alca común), Alca torda near-threatened Black guillemot (arao aliblanco), Cepphus grylle...
- the first record of Snowy Owl (Bubo scandiacus) feeding on a Razorbill (Alca torda)". The Wilson Journal of Ornithology. 127 (3): 503–506. doi:10.1676/14-176...
- murre, Uria aalge (A) Thick-billed murre, Uria lomvia (A) Razorbill, Alca torda (A) Great auk, Pinguinus impennis (E) Black guillemot, Cepphus grylle...