Rissa tridactyla
Black-Legged Kittiwake
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2026-08-05: worms_id 137156 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)
The black-legged kittiwake is a seabird species in the gull family Laridae. This species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his landmark 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae as Larus tridactylus.W CalCOFI holds 834 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2020.R
- 834
- observations
- 834
- records
- 834
- sampling events
- 1987–2020
- years
- 1
- datasets
Observed in 1 dataseti
One row per dataset, and beside it one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same
strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses
(dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet
pill marks a name the authority does not accept.
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One row per dataset, and beside it one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.
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name used: Rissa tridactyla Black-Legged Kittiwake · code
BLKI
Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "itis:176875")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'itis:176875'").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.
Lineage 11 ranks · Animalia to Rissa
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, “Black-legged kittiwake” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1371827325
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF · eBird
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 ↗