Couter neb
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| Razorbill | |
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| At Westfjords peninsula, Iceland | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kinrick: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Cless: | Aves |
| Order: | Charadriiformes |
| Suborder: | Lari |
| Faimily: | Alcidae |
| Genus: | Alca Linnaeus, 1758 |
| Species: | A. torda |
| Binomial name | |
| Alca torda Linnaeus, 1758
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The couter neb or marrot (Alca torda) is a colonial seabird that anly comes tae land in order tae breed. This agile bird chooses ane pairtner for life; females lay ane egg per year. Razorbills nest alang coastal cliffs in enclosed or slichtly exponed crevices. The parents spend equal amoonts o time incubatin. Ance the chick haes hatched, the parents tak turns foragin for thair young an sometimes flee lang distances afore findin prey.
The Razorbill is primarily black wi a white unnerside. The male an female are identical in plumage; however, males are generally lairger than females. In 1918, the Razorbill wis pertectit in the Unitit States bi the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Ane o the major threats tae the population is climate chynge.[2]
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References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Alca torda". IUCN Reid Leet o Threatened Species. Version 2012.1. Internaitional Union for Conservation o Naitur. Retrieved 16 Julie 2012. Cite has empty unkent parameter:
|last-author-amp=(help)CS1 maint: uises authors parameter (link) CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) - ↑ "Razorbill (Alca torda) - BirdLife species factsheet". datazone.birdlife.org. Retrieved 20 Mairch 2023.
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