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Alca torda · Family Alcidae
Alca torda
Family Alcidae
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Alcidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 751,397
- Countries and territories with records
- 70
About this species
This species has 751,397 occurrence records from 70 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United Kingdom (18.1%), Sweden (17.4%), the United States (17.1%), Canada (8.8%) and Norway (8.6%); together they account for 69.9% of the total. In the United Kingdom, this species accounts for 0.21% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Alca torda combines the genus name Alca with the species epithet torda. It is the only species of the genus Alca in the Warbla app catalog.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 19 species of the family Alcidae. This species ranks 2nd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Uria aalge. Its record count is 3 times the family average (251,445). The family Alcidae belongs to the order Charadriiformes, which has 340 species in the Warbla app catalog.