Black-legged Kittiwake / Rissa tridactyla VU

• Synonyms Blacklegged Kittiwake, Kotzebue's Kittiwake, Atlantic Kittiwake, Kittiwake, Pacific Kittiwake, Common Kittiwake, Black-legged Kiitiwake
• Old latin name for bird Rissa brunnichii, Larus tridactylus, Rissa tridactylus

Black-legged Kittiwakebird sounds *

Related species

Red-legged Kittiwake

Where to see Black-legged Kittiwake

• Breeding region Eurasia, North America
• Breeding subregion high Arctic to temperate n coasts, from Greenland, Iceland, w, nw Europe, Svalbard (n of Norway), n Siberian is. to Sakhalin, Kamchatka, Kuril and Commander is. (e Russia); Aleutian and Bering Sea is., w, sw Alaska mainland; Canadian high Arctic (ne Canada), Gulf of St. Lawrence and Newfoundland (se Canada)
• Non breeding region w North Atlantic coast and coastal waters s to Virginia; mid-Atlantic Ridge to Azores; North Sea; Japan, Korean Pen., se Alaska to s California (USA)

Black-legged Kittiwake subspecies (2)

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