Razorbill (redirect from Alca torda)
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...
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Great auk (redirect from Alca impennis)
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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Orkney Islands. Bird species nesting on the stack include: Razorbill Alca torda Atlantic puffin Fratercula arctica Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis Great black-backed...
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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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kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla), common guillemot (Uria aalge), razorbill (Alca torda) and Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica) (with 4,000 or more puffins...
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murre (guillemot de Brünnich), Uria lomvia Razorbill (petit pingouin), Alca torda (B) Great auk (grand pingouin), Pinguinus impennis (E) Black guillemot...
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(A) 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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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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