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.

http://nibirding.blogspot.com/2012/02/rosss-gull-refound-lagan-weir.html

Scientific:
Rhodostethia rosea

Order:
Charadriiformes
Family:
Laridae
Genus:
Rhodostethia

Danish: Rosenmåge

Greenlandic: Naajannguaq

Weight: 4.9-8.8 oz (140-250 g)

Wingspan: 35.4-39.4 in (90-100 cm)

Rob van Bemmelen, XC401732. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/401732

References:

Avibase Worlds Bird Database (2018)  Rhodostethia rosea. Found at https://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/species.jsp?lang=EN&avibaseid=4CD353D243C27F86

Olsen, K. M.; Larsson, H. 2004. Gulls of Europe, Asia and North America. Christopher Helm, London.

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

https://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/awake-no4-2017-august/the-arctic-tern/

Scientific:
Sterna vittata

Order:
Charadriiformes
Family:
Laridae
Genus:
Sterna

Other Languages:

Latin : Sterna paradisaea

Danish :   Havterne

Greenlandic : Emakatilak, Imeqqutaalaq

Length: 11.0-15.3 in (28-39 cm)

Weight: 3.2-4.2 oz (90-120 g)

Wingspan: 25.6-29.5 in (65-75 cm)

The arctic tern is a small tern species with a sharp red bill, red legs, and deeply forked tail. A colony can contain everything from a few couples of mating birds to 20,000 couples, and it is estimated that there’s as many as 65,000 mating couples are currently in Greenland. There is a very high population of Arctic Terns around the Baffin Bay, on the Southwest Coast of Greenland.

Karl-Birger Strann, XC401938. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/401938

References:

Lepage, Dennis. Avibase The World Bird Database (2018) Sterna paradisaea

Sibley, D. A. (2014). The Sibley guide to birds, second edition. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, USA.

Hatch, Jeremy J. 2002. Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea), version 2.0. In The Birds of North America (P. G. Rodewald, editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York, USA.

BirdLife International (2018) Species factsheet: Sterna paradisaea.