Razorbill

Taxonomy

Order

Charadriiformes

Family

Alcidae

Genus

Alca

eBird Code

razorb

Subspecies (2)

• Alca torda islandica

  breeds Iceland, Faroe, British, and Channel islands, and northwestern France and Heligoland (northern Germany); winters offshore to south

• Alca torda torda

  breeds western and southeastern Greenland to northern Scandinavia eastward to White Sea (northwestern Russia), also w, se Greenland to n Scandinavia, Baltic and White seas (nw Russia) northeastern Hudson Bay and southern Baffin Island (northeastern Canada) southward to Gulf of Maine (northeastern USA); winters offshore to south