- 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
- Alle alle (A)
Common murre (arao común), Uria
aalge Razorbill (
alca común),
Alca torda near-threatened
Black guillemot (arao aliblanco),
Cepphus grylle...
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geography textbook from 1887, too,
would use the word
pingvin to
refer to
Alca torda (razorbill) of Russia's
Arctic coast. Географія Россійской Имперіи: (курс...
- 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...
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Common murre, Uria
aalge LC Thick-billed murre, Uria
lomvia LC Razorbill,
Alca torda NT
Great auk,
Pinguinus impennis (E) EX
Black guillemot,
Cepphus grylle...
- black-legged
kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) nest on the cliffs, as do
razorbill (
Alca torda),
common guillemot (Uria aalge),
European herring gull (Larus argentatus)...
