kittiwake

• They are the great black-backed gull, which is the world's largest gull; the lesser black-backed gull, a European species first seen in Ohio in 1977; the black-legged kittiwake, which nests on cliffs and buildings; and the glaucous gull, which nests in the Arctic. —  dispatch.com: RSS
• Keen-eyed observers on Lake Champlain spotted a Sabine's gull, black-legged kittiwake and pomarine, long-tailed and parasitic jaegers (the latter three being larger gull species). —  RutlandHerald.com
• 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. —  The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II
• 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. —  The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II
• But now nobody is so particularly anxious to be a director, because another board "bigger than he" has played the kittiwake, and forced it to disgorge for the consumption of its superior,--I mean the Board of Control: the reader has probably heard of it; the board which, not content with the European residents in India being deprived of their proudest birthright, "the liberty of the press," would even prevent them from having justice awarded to them, by directing two tame elephants (thereby implying two to be placed on each side of a wild one (thereby implying an honest and conscientious man). —  Newton Forster The Merchant Service

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