Mangoverde :: World Bird Guide :: Gulls :: Black-legged Kittiwake

Black-legged Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla

Described by: Linnaeus (1758)
Alternate common name(s): Common Kittiwake, Kittiwake
Old scientific name(s): None known by website authors

Photographs

Choshi, Chiba, Japan - Apr 4, 2004 © William Hull  Hasaki, Ibaraki, Japan - Apr 6, 2003 © William Hull  Choshi, Chiba, Japan - Apr 4, 2004 © William Hull  Choshi, Chiba, Japan - Apr 4, 2004 © William Hull  Cape Cod Bay, near Provincetown, Massachusetts, USA - Dec 18, 2004 © Glen Tepke 
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Range

Arctic circumpolar;
Fragmented distribution;
(1) Nc. Canada from Banks Is., e. Somerset Is., Prince Leopold Is., Bylot Is., Cobourg Is. s. locally on n. and c. Baffin Is., Labrador, Newfoundland to se. Quebec (Gaspe Peninsula) and ne. United States(?) e. to Greenland, Iceland, Faeroe Is., Jan Mayen, Spitsbergen, Franz Josef Land, Novaya Zemlya, n. Russia on the n . Taymyr Peninsula, Severnaya Zemlya, New Siberian Is., Bennet Is. and Wrangel Is. s to w. and n. Europe from the British Isles s. to Portugal and nw. Russia on the Kola Peninsula.
Winters s. to the Sargasso Sea, off the e. United States, Azores and w. Africa.
(2) N. Pacific Ocean from ne. Siberia, Kamchatka, Sea of Okhotsk, Shantar Is. and is. off Sakhalin Is., Kuril Is. and Commander Is., is. in the Bering Sea to w. and s. Alaska from Cape Lisburne s. to Aleutians and e. to Glacier Bay and Dixon Bay.
Winters s. to the East China Sea and nw. Mexico (Baja).

Videos

No videos are available for this species

Sounds

Location unknown - Date unknown Source: ETI BioInformatics

References

Clements, James F. Birds of the World: A Checklist. Vista, CA: Ibis Publishing Company, 2000.

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