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Black-legged Kittiwake
Donald Davesne, CC BY 4.0, via iNaturalist

Shorebirds, gulls & terns

Black-legged Kittiwake

Rissa tridactyla (Linnaeus, 1758)

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Names

EnglishBlack-legged Kittiwake
DutchDrieteenmeeuw
SpanishGaviota tridáctila
Chinese三趾鸥
Scientific nameRissa tridactyla (Linnaeus, 1758)

About this species

The black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) is a seabird species in the gull family Laridae. This species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his landmark 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae as Larus tridactylus. The English name is derived from its call, a shrill 'kittee-wa-aaake, kitte-wa-aaake'. In North America, this species is known as the black-legged kittiwake to differentiate it from the red-legged kittiwake, but in Europe, where it is the only member of the genus, it is often known just as kittiwake.

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Classification

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassAves
OrderCharadriiformes
FamilyLaridae
GenusRissa

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