Alca (bird)

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title: "Alca (bird)" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["bird-genera", "bird-genera-with-one-living-species", "alcini", "auks"] description: "Genus of bird" topic_path: "general/bird-genera" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alca_(bird)" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Genus of bird ::

| fossil_range = Miocene - Recent | image = 2015-07-10 Alca torda Dunstanburgh 2.jpg | image_caption = Razorbill (Alca torda) | taxon = Alca | authority = Linnaeus, 1758 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = *Alca torda

• †Alca ausonia
• †Alca carolinensis
• †Alca grandis
• †Alca minor
• †Alca olsoni
• †Alca stewarti 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 back to the Miocene. The genus appears to have always been restricted to the North Atlantic.

References

References

1. (2011). "An Alphataxonomic Revision of Extinct and Extant Razorbills (Aves, Alcidae): A Combined Morphometric and Phylogenetic Approach". Ornithological Monographs.

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