Illustration: Competition for territory is seldom more severe than amongst cliff-breeding sea birds, and the efforts of individual Razorbills to secure positions on the crowded ledges lead to desperate struggles.
Guillemots and Razorbills return at intervals to the breeding stations early in the season, and these visits are repeated with growing frequency until the birds are finally established.
There are few such haunts of Guillemots and Razorbills in the northern shires of England as are located upon some of these grand cliffs.
Then amongst the cliffs great numbers of Guillemots and smaller numbers of Razorbills deposit their eggs in suitable spots; whilst the Jackdaw and the Rock Dove frequent them.
The Guillemots and Razorbills and Puffins are somewhat irregular in their date of return to the cliffs in spring.
The coastal-bound murres and razorbillsare quite heavily hunted, whereas there is no regular hunting of the pelagic species.
No razorbills were identified, but they may have been included in the murre figure.
Although not many hunt on this scale, an absolute minimum of 5,000 murres and razorbills are killed this way each season.
The breeding distribution and population of razorbills (Alca torda) in Norway.
Conclusion Two opposite population trends have been observed--the decline of the coastal-bound murres and razorbills and the increase and spread of the more pelagic gannets, fulmars, and kittiwakes.
One man can shoot as many as 380 murres and razorbills during a winter season as a sideline to fishing.
There are two Razorbills in the Museum, one in summer and one in winter plumage.
These razorbills dived in order to get more quickly to some point for which they were making.
Razorbills also dive briskly, opening the wings and with a kick up, as it were, of the legs and tail.
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