Black-legged Kittiwake, plate by John James Audubon
Audubon, Birds of America, plate 224, as “Kittiwake Gull”
Water & shore birds

Black-legged Kittiwake

Rissa tridactyla
“Other gull types spotted off Dyer and Trundy Points and Two Lights State Park over the last several weeks include Iceland, Glaucous and Bonaparte’s Gulls and a Black-legged Kittiwake.”
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Feb 16, 2022

Other gull types spotted off Dyer and Trundy Points and Two Lights State Park over the last several weeks include Iceland, Glaucous and Bonaparte’s Gulls and a Black-legged Kittiwake.

Sep 28, 2023

Also reported on this same day off Dyer Point were Caspian Terns, Black-legged Kittiwakes and the first Great Cormorants of the season.