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Red-legged Kittiwake
Plate 1 of 7. (c) Alexander Shienok, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Alexander Shienok · via iNaturalist
IUCN VU · Vulnerable

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Red-legged Kittiwake

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Red-legged Kittiwake

Rissa brevirostris

The red-legged kittiwake (Rissa brevirostris) is a seabird species in the gull family Laridae. It breeds in the Pribilof Islands, Bogoslof Island and Buldir Island in the Bering Sea off the coast of Alaska, and the Commander Islands, Russia and spends the winter at sea.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 4493.