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Where does the Black-legged Kittiwake live?

Rissa tridactyla has 1,110,090 records in 107 countries and territories, from 1805 to 2026. Most records come from United Kingdom.

Black-legged Kittiwake
Black-legged Kittiwake — Yathin S Krishnappa / CC BY-SA 3.0 · source
AnimaliaChordataAvesCharadriiformesLaridaeRissa

When it is recorded

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Peak month: June. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
United Kingdom 355,803
United States 176,458
Canada 114,072
Norway 80,393
Denmark 62,015
Sweden 53,251
Netherlands 39,226
Belgium 37,477
Ireland 36,391
France 32,250
Germany 25,995
Iceland 25,155
Svalbard and Jan Mayen 14,370
Faroe Islands 12,056
Isle of Man 11,897
Spain 6,501
Greenland 5,870
Russia 4,774
Portugal 3,362
Japan 1,154
Finland 537
Poland 432
Italy 401
Saint Pierre and Miquelon 394
ZZ 344
Guernsey 319
South Korea 268
Mexico 265
Türkiye 246
Cabo Verde 210
China 206
Czechia 200
Israel 194
Estonia 184
Greece 167
Taiwan 164
Ukraine 160
Jersey 124
Thailand 119
Switzerland 117

Showing the top 40 of 107 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.