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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.

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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla), common guillemot (Uria aalge), razorbill (Alca torda) and Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica) (with 4,000 or more puffins...
- 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...
- Orkney Islands. Bird species nesting on the stack include: Razorbill Alca torda Atlantic puffin Fratercula arctica Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis Great black-backed...
- (A) Common murre, Uria aalge Thick-billed murre, Uria lomvia Razorbill, Alca torda (A) Pigeon guillemot, Cepphus columba Spectacled guillemot, Cepphus carbo...
- Brachyramphus perdix (A) Parakeet auklet, Aethia psittacula (A) Razorbill, Alca torda Thick-billed murre, Uria lomvia Tufted puffin, Fratercula cirrhata (A)...
- skylark (Alauda arvensis), Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus), razorbill (Alca torda), common murre (Uria aalge), grey heron (Ardea cinerea), rock pigeon (Columba...