Field Guide for Greenlandic Birds

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Black-legged_Kittiwake/id

Scientific:

Rissa tridactyla

Order:
Charadriiformes
Family:
Laridae
Genus:
Rissa

Danish : Ride

Greenlandic: Nowyavah, Taateraa

Length: 15.0-16.1 in (38-41 cm)

Weight: 10.8-18.5 oz (305-525 g)

Wingspan: 37.0 in (94 cm)

maudoc, XC391788. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/391788.

References:

Avibase The World Bird Database (2018). Rissa tridactyla. https://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/species.jsp?lang=EN&avibaseid=FB4D08F0837D4683

BirdLife International (2018) Species factsheet: Rissa tridactyla. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org

Hatch, Scott A., Gregory J. Robertson and Pat Herron Baird. 2009. Black-legged Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla), version 2.0. In The Birds of North America (P. G. Rodewald, editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York, USA.

Sibley, David Allen. 2014. The Sibley guide to birds, second edition. Alfred A Knopf, New York.

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