black-legged kittiwake
rissa tridactyla latin

The Black-legged Kittiwake is one of the most numerous of seabirds.

Other populous colonies include the Black-legged Kittiwake and the Common Murre.

There are two races of Black-legged Kittiwake:

Several species of cliff nesting birds nest on the cliff face, including fulmar and colonies of Black-legged Kittiwake.

A Black-legged Kittiwake in the United Arab Emirates in April is the first record for the country.

Black-legged Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla)

Notable bird species include Black-legged Kittiwake, Thick-billed Murre, colonial waterbird, and seabird.

For example Hasselblad 2000 was tried a week at Nidingen, the only place in Sweden where the Black-legged Kittiwake nests.

The Black-legged Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) is a seabird species in the gull family Laridae.

Nesting birds tend to face the cliff, a habit common among exclusively cliff nesting gulls, such as the Black-legged Kittiwake.

It is the nesting ground of many Atlantic sea birds such as the Leach's Storm-Petrel and Black-legged Kittiwake.

Like the Pacific race of Black-legged Kittiwake, the Red-legged Kittiwake has a well-developed hind toe.

Calls and displays are quite different from other gulls, most resembling the vocalisations of the Black-legged Kittiwake and Sabine's Gull.

In addition to these species, the Black-legged Kittiwake and fulmar nest in the cliffs and the raven and falcon also have their sanctuaries there.

These include Fulmar, Black-legged Kittiwake, Common Gull, Razorbill and Shag.

These include little auk, Black-legged Kittiwake, black guillemot, ivory gull, uria, charadriiformes and glaucous gull.

Other nesting birds include sandwich tern, common tern, arctic tern, black-legged kittiwake, fulmar, three gull species, and eider duck.

On these islands, it shares some of the same cliff habitat as the Black-legged Kittiwake, though there is some localized segregation between the species on given cliffs.

The most common are Little Auk, Northern Fulmar, Thick-billed Murre and Black-legged Kittiwake.

Montauk Point State Park Common eider and red-breasted merganser (common), razorbill and black-legged kittiwake (rare) 2.

On some of Bylot Island's rugged cliffs within the park, thousands of nesting birds can be found including 300,000 Thick-billed Murre and 80,000 Black-legged Kittiwake.

The following species also breed: Atlantic Puffin, Black-legged Kittiwake, Herring Gull and Lesser Black-backed Gull.

Other species present include a variety of gulls, Common Guillemots, Atlantic Puffin, Black-legged Kittiwake, European Shag and (since 1899) Northern Fulmar.

It is best known for its breeding seabirds, including Northern Gannet, Atlantic Puffin, Razorbill, Common Guillemot, Black-legged Kittiwake and Fulmar.

Other nesting birds include Sandwich Tern, Common Tern, Arctic Tern, Black-legged Kittiwake, Fulmar, three gull species, and Common Eider.

Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla)

Numerically the most common bird, around 10% of the United Kingdom population of Kittiwakes (Rissa tridactyla) live here.

The Black-legged Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) is a seabird species in the gull family Laridae.

As of 2005 about 18,000 breeding pairs of Kittiwakes (Rissa tridactyla) return to Fowlsheugh each year, making their nests on some of the most vertical parts of the landscape from muck, seaweed and local grasses.

The cliffs around the cape are an internationally important nesting site for over 50000 sea birds, including colonies of Puffin Fratercula arctica, Razorbill Alca torda, Guillemot Uria aalge, Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla and Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis.