Voorbeelden van kittiwake

• Puffins and gannets, guillemots and kittiwakes flock to the cliffs of Flamborough Headland near Bridlington to nest.

• We found a tiny peninsula with cliffs just high enough for a colony of kittiwakes.

• The worst affected have been birds such as the terns and kittiwakes, which feed by catching small fish near the sea surface by shallow plunge-diving.

• Farther down the coast we saw a huge kittiwake colony on an inland cliff.

• On this day a large number (> 100) of black-legged kittiwakes were also observed.

• In the case of kittiwakes, we can measure breeding success.

• Iupiat cross from the mainland to gather eggs, primarily from kittiwakes and murres.

• Wild goats, golden eagles, breeding fulmars, and kittiwakes frequent the area.

• The outer point is about 25 meters high, and serves as a breeding place for guillemot, kittiwakes and ptarmigan.

• Apart from the kittiwakes, gulls are typically coastal or inland species, rarely venturing far out to sea.

• While most black-legged kittiwakes do, indeed, have dark-grey legs, some have pinkish-grey to reddish legs, making colouration a somewhat unreliable identifying marker.

• Cliffs, islands and sea stacks are a habitat for breeding sea birds such as guillemots, kittiwakes and razor bills, as well as rock doves which can live inland as well.

• In common usage, gull-like seabirds that are not technically gulls (e.g. albatrosses, fulmars, kittiwakes, terns and skuas) may also be referred to as' seagulls' by the layperson.

• In the black-legged kittiwake (which shares this winter habit) resting metabolism is 40% higher on water than it is in air.

• The building has many special features, particularly the roof, which is in the form of a fingerprint counter mould kittiwake, feature of the dinosaurs.

• Additionally, kittiwake and ptarmigan are hunted on the east coast.

• Nesting birds tend to face the cliff, a habit common among exclusively cliff nesting gulls, such as the black-legged kittiwake.

• Other nesting birds include sandwich tern, common tern, arctic tern, black-legged kittiwake, fulmar, three gull species, and eider duck.

• The black-legged kittiwake is one of the most numerous of seabirds.