Besides species of Lestris and kittiwakes we now also saw looms, birds that are almost wanting in the Kara Sea.
When the vessel is in harbour, the kittiwakes commonly gather round it to pick out anything eatable in the refuse that may be thrown away.
Up and down the edge of the shore flocks of kittiwakes moved incessantly, darting like an arrow, with a dull splash, towards the surface of the water, whenever a little crustacean appeared there.
They roosted in hundreds and hundreds on the shelves and ledges above us; at other places the kittiwakesbrooded on their nests.
It was strange to be using paddles again and to see the water swarming with birds--auks and little auks and kittiwakes all round.
Kittiwakes and gannets were readily censused by a combination of photographic methods and detailed counts in sample areas (Brun 1971b).
Pelagic cormorants occupy isolated, small colonies, but they also nest with kittiwakes and murres and are often found with red-faced cormorants.
Shuntov (1961) showed that kittiwakes are most abundant along the edge of the continental shelf in the Bering Sea in the summertime.
On the steep side of one of the great 'stacks' opposite, kittiwakes are roosting in the most extraordinary numbers, and so close together that they look not like birds, but some outcrop on the surface of the rock.
The kittiwakes are more silent than in broad day, though there is a burst of clamour now and again.
Though I did not see the actual commencement of this affair, I must have all but seen it, as a party of young kittiwakes that had been bathing near the ledges flew up all at once, and this I have no doubt was when the attack was made.
We often see this illustrated in the case of the sexes, and after watching kittiwakes at the close of the breeding-season, I can have no doubt that the same principle governs the motions of young and old birds.
One of these well-grown young kittiwakes has just been fed by the mother, or father--but call it the mother, it always sounds better.
But are these young kittiwakes first killed by the gulls, or found dead by them merely?
The time before last that it was fed, however, I thought I heard a sharp little cry, but it was impossible to be sure whether this was from the chick or some of the thronging and clamouring kittiwakes perched and flying all about.
Numbers of young kittiwakes are still on the ledges; they look quite mature, and much like some pretty species of dove.
The Daws are great robbers of eggs, and as soon as the Auks or Kittiwakes chance to leave them unprotected the foraging birds beat along the cliffs and pounce upon them, carrying them off transfixed on their bill.
There are also many Kittiwakes nesting about the cliffs of the Bass, and a few Herring Gulls.
The harsh tones of the kittiwakes are heard above the whole, the intervals being filled with the monotonous note of the auk, and the softer voice of the guillemot.
Next are the skua gulls, regarded with an anxious eye by the kittiwakes above.
The kittiwakesremained composedly in their nests, whilst the cormorants tumbled headlong into the sea.
Our gentlemen, who visited the spot, described it as rendered the more picturesque by innumerable kittiwakes having their nests among the rocks, and constantly flying about the stream.
Hundreds of kittiwakes were starting up all about us too, with such a chorus of cries that it was not very clear which was dog.
There are plenty of kittiwakes and lumne and eiderducks about these islets," I suggested.
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