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    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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    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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    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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    important for breeding northern fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis), razorbill (Alca torda) and guillemot (Uria aalge). "Trevose Head Lighthouse". Trinity House...
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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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  • (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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    seabirds, including colonies of puffin Fratercula arctica, razorbill Alca torda, guillemot Uria aalge, kittiwake Rissa tridactyla and fulmar Fulmarus...
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    skylark (Alauda arvensis), Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus), razorbill (Alca torda), common guillemot (Uria aalge), grey heron (Ardea cinerea), rock dove...
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    alle Common murre, Uria aalge Thick-billed murre, Uria lomvia Razorbill, Alca torda Great auk, Pinguinus impennis (A)(Ex) Black guillemot, Cepphus grylle...
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    birds include yellow-legged gulls (Larus michahellis), terns, razorbills (Alca torda), shags, the occasional puffin (Fratercula arctica) or Cory's shearwater...
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    murre, Uria aalge (A) Thick-billed murre, Uria lomvia (A) Razorbill, Alca torda (near-threatened) Atlantic puffin, Fratercula arctica (vulnerable) Order:...
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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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  • (Uria aalge) A – breeding summer visitor and resident species Razorbill (Alca torda) A – breeding summer visitor and resident species Great auk (Pinguinus...
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  • Brachyramphus perdix (A) Parakeet auklet, Aethia psittacula (A) Razorbill, Alca torda Thick-billed murre, Uria lomvia Tufted puffin, Fratercula cirrhata (A)...
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  • alle (common) Atlantic puffin, Fratercula arctica (uncommon) Razorbill, Alca torda (common) Black guillemot, Cepphus grylle (common) Common guillemot, Uria...
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    (Phalacrocorax carbo), northern fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis), razorbill (Alca torda) and puffin (Fratercula arctica). Several of the isles are closed to visitors...
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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...
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    alle Common murre, Uria aalge Thick-billed murre, Uria lomvia Razorbill, Alca torda Great auk, Pinguinus impennis (extinct) Black guillemot, Cepphus grylle...
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    for inclusion on the official list. Murre species, Uria sp. Razorbill, Alca torda The ivory-billed woodpecker is considered extirpated from Texas, and is...
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    murre, Uria aalge (R) Thick-billed murre, Uria lomvia (R) Razorbill, Alca torda Black guillemot, Cepphus grylle (R) Atlantic puffin, Fratercula arctica...
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    aalge Thick-billed murre (polarlomvi), Uria lomvia Razorbill (alke), Alca torda (near-threatened) Great auk, Pinguinus impennis (extinct) Black guillemot...
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    kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla), common guillemot (Uria aalge) and razorbill (Alca torda). "Stø, Øksnes (Nordland)". yr.no. Retrieved 2018-12-30. "Informasjon...
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    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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    black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) nest on the cliffs, as do razorbill (Alca torda), common guillemot (Uria aalge), European herring gull (Larus argentatus)...
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    Dovekie, Alle alle (A) Thick-billed murre, Uria lomvia (A) Razorbill, Alca torda (A) Black guillemot, Cepphus grylle (B) Long-billed murrelet, Brachyramphus...
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    the SSSI for its seabirds with eight breeding species. The razorbill (Alca torda) population is of national importance and together with fulmar (Fulmaris...
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  • black-backed gull (Larus fiscus), guillemot (Uria aalge), razorbill (Alca torda) and black guillemot (Cepphus grylle). Adlergrund Bay of Pomerania Naturschutz...
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