Boggley made his particularly beautiful, but unfortunately broke it immediately afterwards, at which Kittiwake laughed so immoderately she fell on her saucer and sent it to its long home.
I shouldn't like to try and take my kittiwake in there, big as it is.
Or suppose that different pairs of Kittiwake Gulls on the crowded ledges, or different pairs of Puffins in the crowded burrows, varied in like manner, would they all have equal chances of rearing their offspring?
Certainly, the two boys were little sturdy fellows, burnt lobster-like up to the roots of their bleached and rough hair; and their costumes were more adapted to the deck of the Kittiwake in all weathers than to genteel society.
Felix gladly accepted, aware that their transport was a difficulty to the Stapleses, and that the Kittiwake would be felicity to Lance, who had fraternised with the boys, and went off with them to see the vessel.
Well, I did think it queer that the sailors on board the Kittiwake called every one My Lord.
Tossed in the wind, flocks of screaming plover and whitekittiwake flew aimlessly over the green flat; the plaintive cry of a lonely curlew rang eerily as he scudded swiftly along the foreshore.
Of all the British Gulls the Kittiwake is certainly the most maritime in its habits, and is never known to visit inland districts, unless driven from the coast by storms of exceptional violence.
The Kittiwake is the most trustful perhaps of the Gulls, and a flock will remain hovering round a boat until almost decimated by the gunners.
The Kittiwake is perhaps more exclusively a fish-feeder than any other British Gull.
One of the most striking characteristics of the Kittiwake is its peculiar cry, heard to the best advantage at the nesting places.
The young Kittiwake is widely known along the coast under the name of "Tarrock.
The Kittiwake is a much more oceanic bird than the Common Gull, and often wanders immense distances from land in quest of food.
I cannot get that kittiwake right without a glass of port.
Did you ever see a kittiwake turn his neck in that fashion?
On the road-side, sitting by a little stream of water which gushed out of the broken rocks, sat a large Kittiwake Gull.
How often we followed with our eyes that wild chase up in the air, until at last the kittiwake had to drop its booty, and down shot the skua, catching it even before it touched the water!
It was not until June 10th that we secured the first game, when the doctor succeeded in shooting a fulmar and a kittiwake (Larus tridactylus).
But up and down along the shore the skua (Stercorarius crepidatus) chased incessantly, and every now and again we were startled by a pitiful cry of distress above our heads; it was a kittiwake pursued by a skua.
The Kittiwake is sixteen inches in length, has a pearly gray mantle, black tips to the primaries, and remainder of plumage white.
The Pacific Kittiwake breeds in immense rookeries on some of the islands in Bering Sea.
This Kittiwake is similar to the preceding, with the exception that the legs are bright red, the mantle is darker, and the bill is shorter.
Four months earlier, by one of those chances which seem no chance when we look back to them, the Kittiwakehad broken down on leaving the anchorage of Port Mahon.
Professor Ansted includes the Kittiwake in his list, but only marks it as occurring in Guernsey and Sark.
It was quite a pleasant little excursion from Gurgan Point to the harbour; the sea was luckily calm, but there was sufficient breeze to enable The Kittiwake to skim over the water like her sea-gull namesake.
But they did not know how long before the telegraph from St. Malo the Kittiwake from St. Cadoc had spread her wings and hoisted her feather, for, happily, her coals had held out better than her provisions.
For indeed there had been danger enough during the thunderstorm to make the safety of the Kittiwake a matter of thankfulness, though the rescue of the boat had caused it to be almost forgotten in the history of the night.
The Kittiwake being a steamer, light and swift, might be expected in harbour in the course of the night, and Mr. Delrio meant to wait for her at his son's lodgings.
She could not get home in time for it, and I was seeing the Kittiwake party on board, and only crept in at the other end of the hall in time for Bessie's faint echoes.
Red-legged Kittiwake (Rissa brevirostris) Red-legged kittiwakes are not now known to breed in the western Gulf of Alaska.
The black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) is common in open water south of the ice but is also found throughout the entire width of the front.
Egg size and shape in the kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) and their use in estimating age composition in populations.
Nesting cliffs and buildings suitable for kittiwake nesting are abundant and now protected from egging or fowling.
Clark (1911) also reported that he had seen the red-legged kittiwake in small numbers near Unalaska and that they became progressively more common west to the Near Islands.
Nothing is said about the populations of the kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla), black-legged kittiwake (R.
He added that to the westward this kittiwake was more abundant than the black-legged kittiwake.
In the Chukchi the principal species encountered on the ice are the black-legged kittiwake and the thick-billed murre.
I have now seen, more in extenso, another young kittiwake killed by a herring-gull.
Why should he look on whilst a gull, slowly and painfully, does a poor young kittiwake to death?
The tout ensemble of all this is very pretty, and the young kittiwake is a pretty bird.
Here I found some more guillemot and kittiwake ledges, and on one of these were some half a dozen of the former birds, one being a young one.
The Kittiwake makes its nest of eel-weeds, several inches in thickness, and in places too small for a Gannet or a Guillemot to place itself; in some instances these nests projected some inches over the edge of the rock.
A great number of Kittiwake Gulls breed on this rock, with thousands of Foolish Guillemots.
Whilst I contended that they flew, Kittiwake said that their tiny wings could never support them, and certainly neither of us had ever seen them on their journeyings.
Kittiwake and I argued that whilst they were resident and bred in the marshes, yet their numbers were greatly augmented in autumn by other birds which came to spend the winter.
If Kittiwake knew, he would never admit that these were the wild swans coming from the north, which chose the darkest nights for their migration.
When the "tjufjo" sees a kittiwakeor a glaucous gull fly off with a shrimp, a fish, or a piece of blubber, it instantly attacks it.
I first met with true loom and kittiwake fells farther north on the southern shore of Besimannaja Bay.
As the skua pursues the kittiwake and the glaucous gull, it is in its turn pursued with extraordinary fierceness by the little swiftly-flying and daring bird taernan, the Arctic tern (Sterna macroura, Naum.
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.
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