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==Species== {{Species table |genus= Rissa |authority-name=[[James Francis Stephens|Stephens]] |authority-year=1826 |species-count=two|no-note=y|narrow-percent=75}} {{Species table/row |name=black-legged kittiwake |binomial=[[Rissa tridactyla]] |image=File:Rissa tridactyla 4.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=|image-caption=Adult |image2 =File:Young Kittiwakes on Inner Farne - geograph.org.uk - 877310.jpg|image2-caption=Chick |authority-name=Linnaeus|authority-year=1758 |authority-not-original= |range= Breeding colonies can be found in the Pacific from the [[Kuril Islands]], around the coast of the [[Sea of Okhotsk]] throughout the [[Bering Sea]] and the [[Aleutian Islands]] to southeast [[Alaska]],<ref>{{in lang|ru}} Artyukhin Yu.B. and V.N. Burkanov (1999). ''Sea birds and mammals of the Russian Far East: a Field Guide'', Moscow: ΠSΠ’ Publishing β 215 p.</ref> and in the Atlantic from the [[Gulf of St. Lawrence]] through [[Greenland]] and the coast of [[Ireland]] down to [[Portugal]], as well as in the high Arctic islands.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.jncc.gov.uk/pdf/UKSPA/UKSPA-A6-87.pdf |title=U.K. Joint Nature Conservation Committee Report |access-date=2007-12-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110204121709/http://www.jncc.gov.uk/pdf/UKSPA/UKSPA-A6-87.pdf |archive-date=2011-02-04 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In the winter, the range extends further south and out to sea. |range-image=File:Rissa tridactyla area all.PNG |range-image-size=180px |size=It is one of the most numerous of seabirds. |habitat=At sea or nesting on the sheerest sea cliffs. |hunting=Fish, copepods, polychete and squids |iucn-status=VU |population= |direction= |subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Two subspecies |bullets=on | ''R. t. tridactyla'' ([[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], 1758) | ''R. t. pollicaris'' [[Robert Ridgway|Ridgway]], 1884 }} }} {{Species table/row |name= red-legged kittiwake |binomial=[[Rissa brevirostris]] |image=File:Red-legged Kittiwake RWD3.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=|image-caption=Adult |image2 =File:Rissa brevirostris7.jpg|image2-caption=Chick |authority-name=Bruch|authority-year= 1853|authority-not-original= |range= Very limited range in the [[Bering Sea]], breeding only on the [[Pribilof Islands|Pribilof]], [[Bogoslof Island|Bogoslof]], and [[Buldir]] islands in the United States, and the [[Commander Islands]] in [[Russia]]. |range-image=File:Mapa Rissa brevirostris.png |range-image-size=180px |size=Adults are {{convert|35|-|39|cm|in|abbr=on}} long, with an {{convert|84|-|92|cm|in|abbr=on}} wingspan and a weight of {{convert|325|-|510|g|oz|abbr=on}}.<ref name = "CRC">''CRC Handbook of Avian Body Masses'' by John B. Dunning Jr. (Editor). CRC Press (1992), {{ISBN|978-0-8493-4258-5}}.</ref> |habitat=On these islands, it shares some of the same cliff habitat as the black-legged kittiwake, though some localized segregation is seen between the species on given cliffs. |hunting= |iucn-status= VU |population= |direction= |subspecies= }} {{Species table/end}}
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