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Black-legged Kittiwake

Rissa tridactyla ORDER: CHARADRIIFORMES FAMILY: LARIDAE

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

A small, cliff-nesting gull, the Black-legged Kittiwake breeds along northern coasts and winters out at sea.

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Calls

  • Calls
    Recorded by Stuart D. MacDonald
    • Courtesy of Macaulay Library
    © Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Call a high, nasal "kitti-weeeik," or "e-e-eh." Usually silent in winter.

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