Kittiwake

Word KITTIWAKE
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Hyphenation kit ti wake
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Definitions and meanings of "Kittiwake"

What do we mean by kittiwake?

Either of two gray gulls, Rissa tridactyla or R. brevirostris of northern oceans, that nest in colonies on sea cliffs. noun

A gull of the genus Rissa, family Laridæ, having the hind toe unusually short or rudimentary, the wings extremely long, a bill with an acute decurved tip, and peculiarly colored primaries. noun

A northern gull (Rissa tridactyla), inhabiting the coasts of Europe and America. It is white, with black tips to the wings, and has only three toes. noun

Either of two small gulls in the genus Rissa of the family Laridae that nest in colonies on sea cliffs and spend the winter on the open ocean. noun

Small pearl-grey gull of northern regions; nests on cliffs and has a rudimentary hind toe noun

Either of two small gulls in the genus Rissa of the family Laridae that nest in colonies on sea cliffs and spend the winter on the open ocean.

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The word "kittiwake" in example sentences

Among the birds of the north the kittiwake is the best builder; for its nest is walled with straw and mud, and is very firm. ❋ Alexander Leslie (1866)

A number of arctic marine mammal and bird species are circumpolar, and are represented by several populations and even subspecies (e.g., the bowhead whale, walrus, bearded seal, ringed seal, herring gull (Larus argentatus), glaucous gull (L. hyperboreus), and kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla)). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Great black-backed gull (Larus marinus) Black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) III ❋ Unknown (2009)

Other uncommon species are golden eagle Aquila chrysaetos, redlegged kittiwake Rissa brevirostris (VU), and spotted greenshank Tringa guttifer (EN). ❋ Unknown (2008)

But sometimes the soul does come up, shoots like a kittiwake into the light, with ecstasy, after having preyed on the submarine depths. ❋ Unknown (2004)

From Bevis arrived a wooden box containing a kittiwake, which he had stuffed himself, with wings outspread. ❋ Angela Brazil (1907)

Silent, silent: for neither snort of walrus, nor yelp of fox, nor cry of startled kittiwake, did I hear: but all was still as the jet-black shadow of the cliffs and glacier on the tranquil sea: and many bodies of dead things strewed the surface of the water. ❋ Unknown (1906)

Some gulls, however, are able to plunge farther below the surface than others, and the little kittiwake is perhaps the most expert diver of them all, though in no sense at home under water like the shag. ❋ Unknown (1894)

She was coming up from the south under jib, foresail, and mainsail; but even as we watched her all her white canvas shut suddenly in, like a kittiwake closing her wings, and we saw the splash of her anchor just under her bowsprit. ❋ Arthur Conan Doyle (1894)

Not even the cry of a sea-mew or kittiwake broke the almost deathlike stillness, -- no breath of wind stirred a ripple on the glassy water. ❋ Marie Corelli (1889)

They come not down to mix with the currents of human life in the streets and open spaces; they fly away to the country to feed, and dwell on the cathedral above the houses and people just as sea-birds -- kittiwake and guillemot and gannet -- dwell on the ledges of some vast ocean-fronting cliff. ❋ Unknown (1881)

Here you have the dominative swans; there, the extremely sociable kittiwake-gulls, among whom quarrels are rare and short; the prepossessing polar guillemots, which continually caress each other; the egoist she-goose, who has repudiated the orphans of a killed comrade; and, by her side, another female who adopts any one's orphans, and now paddles surrounded by fifty or sixty youngsters, whom she conducts and cares for as if they all were her own breed. ❋ Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin (1881)

Aleck sat and mused again, running over in his mind such gulls as he knew, and coming to the conclusion that unless it was some unusual specimen, of great vocal powers, it could not be the black-backed nor the lesser black-backed, nor the black-headed herring gull or kittiwake. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)

Bodger, a few days later, as he adzed and planed and hammered away at the kittiwake down in front of the natural boat-house. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)

There was a solitary kittiwake in a cage devoted to sea-birds, nearly all of which were foreigners. ❋ William Black (1869)

As the skua pursues the kittiwake and the glaucous gull, it is in its turn pursued with extraordinary fierceness by the little swiftly-flying and daring bird _taernan_, the Arctic tern (_Sterna macroura_, Naum.). ❋ Alexander Leslie (1866)

When the "tjufjo" sees a kittiwake or a glaucous gull fly off with a shrimp, a fish, or a piece of blubber, it instantly attacks it. ❋ Alexander Leslie (1866)

It is a true ice-bird, and, it may almost be said, scarcely a water-bird at all, for it is seldom seen swimming on the surface, and it can dive as little as its relatives, the glaucous gull and the kittiwake. ❋ Alexander Leslie (1866)

When one inquires into the reason of this, it is found to proceed from a kittiwake, more rarely from a glaucous gull, eagerly pursued by a bird as large as a crow, dark-brown, with white breast and long tail-feathers. ❋ Alexander Leslie (1866)

I first met with true loom and kittiwake fells farther north on the southern shore of Besimannaja Bay. ❋ Alexander Leslie (1866)

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