black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla)

Rissa tridactyla is a species in the Rissa genus. It is commonly known as black-legged kittiwake This name is unplaced name for the species in the family Laridae subfamily Larinae, . . This species is found in It is one of the most numerous of seabirds. Breeding colonies can be found in the Pacific from the Kuril Islands, around the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk throughout the Bering Sea and the Aleutian Islands to southeast Alaska,[7] and in the Atlantic from the Gulf of St. Lawrence through Greenland and the coast of Ireland down to Portugal, as well as in the high Arctic islands.[8] In the winter, the range extends further south and out to sea..