#kittiwake

[cookiedoves]

sketch of a kittiwake in a bonnet 🤍

[vintagewildlife]

Kittiwakes By: Unknown photographer From: The Grolier Illustrated Encyclopedia of Animals 1994

[best-bird-tournament]

Gulls (Larinae) subfamily

Which is the best bird?

Heerman's gull

Ring-billed gull

Laughing gull

Saunders's gull

Little gull

Ivory gull

Great black-headed gull

Bonaparte's gull

Red-legged kittiwake

Sabine's gull

Ross's gull

Swallow-tailed gull

Voting ended onOct 2, 2025

[goldcrested]

18.03.2026 - this is my screaming ledge

[herpsandbirds]

Red-legged Kittiwake (Rissa brevirostris), family Laridae, order Charadriiformes, Alaska

photograph by Milo Burcham

[tim-dennis]

Kittiwake

[57amp3r]

Birds on the wing, Lundy, Bristol Channel, Devon, 1951

[mirroreclipse]

My contribution this year to the Polar Lights zine, tried something more painterly because it's fun ^u^

Go get yourself a copy and support Antarctic conservation research~