| The kittiwake is a much more oceanic bird than the Common Gull, and often wanders immense distances from land in quest of food. |
| The kittiwake is sixteen inches in length, has a pearly gray mantle, black tips to the primaries, and remainder of plumage white. |
| 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. |
| Though you'll often see herring gulls and ring-billed gulls in urban areas, you'll never see a black legged kittiwake. |
| It was on the deck of the kittiwake, and there was nothing kindergarten about it. |
| This probably explains the names of the chough, crake, hoopoe, kittiwake, pipit, shrike, twite and whimbrel. |
