| This probably explains the names of the chough, crake, hoopoe, kittiwake, pipit, shrike, twite and whimbrel. |
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| The razorbill, fulmar, guillemot, kittiwake, chough and short-eared owl will all make your acquaintance on this magical island. |
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| Over-fishing of the birds' primary food source, the sand eel, is being blamed for the huge fall in numbers from 83,000 kittiwake 13 years ago to roughly 49,000 at present. |
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| Though you'll often see herring gulls and ring-billed gulls in urban areas, you'll never see a black legged kittiwake. |
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| The low breeding rate of the kittiwake that Mr Busk referred to is of particular concern. |
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| A pelagic gull, this kittiwake spends most of the year at sea. |
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| The chalk cliffs stretching east from Dover are home to a rich array of wildlife such as the Adonis blue butterfly and peregrine falcons, Kent's only kittiwake, and plants including oxtongue broomrape and sea carrots. |
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| Using mathematical models, scientists showed that northern gannet, sandwich tern, black-legged kittiwake, common guillemot and razorbill are suitable for the future impact evaluation. |
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| The kittiwake, puffin, and murre colonies on islands in Witless Bay and at Baccalieu Island in Newfoundland and Labrador are visited by regular tourist boats. |
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| Almost every seabird – from the gregarious kittiwake to the wandering albatross – will have eaten some kind of plastic object by the middle of this century, a systematic survey of marine pollution has found. |
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| It is believed there are 116 nesting kittiwake pairs that use the bridge, with more birds on the Baltic. |
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| Unlike other gull chicks which wander around as soon as they can walk, kittiwake chicks instinctively sit still in the nest to avoid falling off. |
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| Important waterfowl species of the Norwegian Sea are puffin, kittiwake and guillemot. |
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| This population level significantly decreased from the 1992 kittiwake count of 34,870 breeding pairs of this seabird. |
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| Furthermore, it is believed that the high breeding potential of the black-legged kittiwake, which can lay up to three eggs as of age three, is another factor that has contributed to the species' spectacular population growth. |
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| The USS Kittiwake, a 1945-vintage submarine rescue ship, now rests on a sandy bottom off Grand Cayman's Seven Mile Beach. |
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| The GKA fields in production comprise the Kittiwake, Mallard, Gadwall, Goosander and Grouse fields. |
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| The Kittiwake has become a dynamic environment for marine life. |
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| Experienced and beginner divers are invited to swim around the Kittiwake. |
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