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Black-legged Kittiwake

Also known as Kittiwake, Rissa tridactyla

species of bird

AI overview

The black-legged kittiwake is a seabird that lives in northern oceans and coastal areas around the Arctic. It matters because it is considered an important indicator of ocean health and climate change, as scientists monitor its populations to understand how environmental conditions are affecting marine ecosystems.

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In the Vinony graph

Black-legged Kittiwake is indexed among the 16,386 entries in Vinony's Vulnerable Species collection.

Within Vinony's link graph, Black-legged Kittiwake is referenced by 493 other articles, and connects out to Rissa, Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Europe.

It sits within the topics Animal taxa named by Carl Linnaeus, Birds described in 1758 and Birds of Europe.

Its subject is documented across 65 Wikipedia language editions.

Species

black-legged kittiwake

Species

PhylumChordata
ClassAves
OrderCharadriiformes
FamilyLaridae

Habitatmarine

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: taxon
Parent taxon: Rissa
Mass: 393
Image: Black-legged-Kittiwake.jpg

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taxon rank: species
IUCN conservation status: Vulnerable
Commons category: Rissa tridactyla
taxon name: Rissa tridactyla
Commons gallery: Rissa tridactyla
taxon common name: gaivota-tridáctila-comum
taxon author citation: (Linnaeus, 1758)
wingspan: 0.96
short name: R. tridactyla
taxon range: Africa
regional conservation status: Endangered status

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Encyclopedic overview

The black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) is a seabird species in the gull family Laridae. This species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his landmark 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae as Larus tridactylus. The English name is derived from its call, a shrill 'kittee-wa-aaake, kitte-wa-aaake'. 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.

Taxonomy

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Black-legged Kittiwake” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.