- razor-billed auk, or
lesser auk (
Alca torda) is a
North Atlantic colonial seabird and the only
extant member of the
genus Alca of the
family Alcidae, the auks...
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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...
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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...
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birds include yellow-legged
gulls (Larus micha****is), terns,
razorbills (
Alca torda), shags, the
occasional puffin (Fratercula arctica) or Cory's shearwater...
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species of seabirds. Bird
species nesting on the
stack include:
Razorbill Alca torda Atlantic puffin Fratercula arctica Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis Great black-backed...
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Common murre, Uria
aalge Thick-billed murre, Uria
lomvia Razorbill,
Alca torda (A)
Pigeon guillemot,
Cepphus columba Spectacled guillemot,
Cepphus carbo...
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Common murre, Uria
aalge Thick-billed murre, Uria
lomvia Razorbill,
Alca torda Great auk,
Pinguinus impennis (A)(Ex)
Black guillemot,
Cepphus grylle...
