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2026-08-05: worms_id 137046 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)
The kittiwakes are two closely related seabird species in the gull family Laridae, the black-legged kittiwake and the red-legged kittiwake.W CalCOFI holds 834 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2020.R
- 834
- observations
- 834
- records
- 1987–2020
- years
- 1
- datasets
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, in the fold below.
Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "itis:176806")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'itis:176806'").df()Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.21, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
How big is it not on record
Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).
Under it 1 taxon
- sp Rissa tridactyla Black-Legged Kittiwake834
Lineage 10 ranks · Animalia to Laridae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · Andy Wilson · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Rissa tridactyla · source
- Photo · Donald Davesne · CC BY 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Kittiwake” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1364182635
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF
The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.
Cite the release, v2026.10.21
Cite the release, v2026.10.21; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗