Black legged Kittiwake

Black legged Kittiwake: Adults are roughly sixteen inches (40 cm) long with a length of 35-40 inches (80-90 cm). They need a white head and body. Their backs are gray, and their gray wings are tipped solid black. They need black legs and a yellow bill. The hind toe on their foot is merely a small bump, giving the bird its scientific name Rissa tridactyla, which means “three-toed” (instead of 4 for every foot). Within the winter they acquire a dark gray smudge behind their eyes and develop a gray hind-neck collar. Their name springs from its decision that appears like a shrill 'kite-WA-oak, kite-WA-oak'.

The black-legged sea gull prefers to eat marine invertebrates, plankton, and fish. They prefer to enclose flocks and catch their food at the surface of the water. They additionally dive slightly below the surface of the water to catch their prey, creating them one amongst the few gulls that dives and swims underwater.

This gull may be a coastal bird found within the Pacific, Atlantic Ocean, Scandinavia, and Europe. They breed in massive, reedy colonies on cliffs. A typical nest is lined with nonvascular plant and alga and can contain up to 2 eggs. Breeding and nesting timeframe are sometimes in Gregorian calendar month in August. Kittiwakes are born white and develop a particular black “W” band across the length of their wings as they become a juvenile. As associate adult, the black “W” is replaced with a solid gray color and solely the ideas stay black.