Black-legged kittiwake

phylum	Chordata	The Black-legged Kittiwake is a seabird species in the gull family Laridae. 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. It is a coastal breeding bird around the north Pacific and north Atlantic oceans, found most commonly in North America and Europe. It breeds in large colonies on cliffs and is very noisy on the breeding ground For more information, visit the Wikipedia entry. Get back to Gulls
clade	Diapsida
Class	Aves
order	Charadriiformes
family	Laridae
genus	Rissa
species	R. tridactyla

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