{"id":24353,"date":"2012-10-29T20:39:45","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T19:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/galleries\/seabirds\/kittiwake-rissa-tridactyla\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T09:12:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T08:12:54","slug":"kittiwake-rissa-tridactyla","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/galleries\/seabirds\/kittiwake-rissa-tridactyla\/","title":{"rendered":"Black-legged Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Black-legged Kittiwake, Rissa tridactyla is a seabird species in the gull family Laridae. It is a coastal breeding bird around the north Pacific and north Atlantic oceans, found most commonly in North America and Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Factsheet: Black-legged Kittiwake\u00a0<i>Rissa\u00a0tridactyla<\/i>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"ngg-galleryoverview\" id=\"ngg-gallery-124-24353\">\n\n\n\n    \t<!-- Thumbnails -->\n\t\t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-754\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/kittiwake-rissa-tridactyla\/kittiwake-rissa-tridactyla-4.jpg\" title=\"Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) at Skellig Michael, Co. Kerry, Republic of Ireland\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) at Skellig Michael, Co. Kerry, Republic of Ireland\" alt=\"Black-legged Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) \" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/kittiwake-rissa-tridactyla\/thumbs\/thumbs_kittiwake-rissa-tridactyla-4.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Black-legged Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) <\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n \t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-753\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/kittiwake-rissa-tridactyla\/kittiwake-rissa-tridactyla-3.jpg\" title=\"Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) at Skellig Michael, Co. Kerry, Republic of Ireland\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) at Skellig Michael, Co. Kerry, Republic of Ireland\" alt=\"Black-legged Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) \" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/kittiwake-rissa-tridactyla\/thumbs\/thumbs_kittiwake-rissa-tridactyla-3.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Black-legged Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) <\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n \t\n\t<!-- Pagination -->\n \t<div class=\"ngg-clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Black-legged Kittiwake, Rissa tridactyla is a seabird species in the gull family Laridae. It is a coastal breeding bird around the north Pacific and north Atlantic oceans, found most commonly in North America and Europe. Factsheet: Black-legged Kittiwake\u00a0Rissa\u00a0tridactyla\u00a0 &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1178,"featured_media":829106,"parent":17618,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[1606,1059,451],"class_list":["post-24353","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-black-legged-kittiwake","tag-rissa-tridactyla","tag-seabirds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24353\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}