| Near the sea the list is augmented by the marsh bunting, the curlew, and gulls of different kinds, including the kittiwake. |
| A pelagic gull, this kittiwake spends most of the year at sea. |
| It was on the deck of the kittiwake, and there was nothing kindergarten about it. |
| The nest of the kittiwake is situated on ledges of maritime cliffs round our coast, and at the Farne Islands. |
| 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. |
| This probably explains the names of the chough, crake, hoopoe, kittiwake, pipit, shrike, twite and whimbrel. |
