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Black-legged Kittiwake
Rissa tridactyla · Family Laridae
Rissa tridactyla
Family Laridae
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Laridae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 1,116,061
- Countries and territories with records
- 109
About this species
This species has 1,116,061 occurrence records from 109 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United Kingdom (31.9%), the United States (15.9%), Canada (10.3%), Norway (7.3%) and Denmark (5.6%); together they account for 71% of the total. In the United Kingdom, this species accounts for 0.56% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Rissa tridactyla combines the genus name Rissa with the species epithet tridactyla. The Warbla app catalog lists one other species of the genus Rissa: Rissa brevirostris.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 101 species of the family Laridae. This species ranks 20th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Larus delawarensis. Its record count is 1.3 times the family average (874,525). The family Laridae belongs to the order Charadriiformes, which has 340 species in the Warbla app catalog.