. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. I-ARIDiT,. 683. THE KITTIWAKE GULL. RfssA TRiDACTYLA (Luiiiaeus). The Kittiwake—characterized by an obsolete hind-toe—is to be found in British waters throughout the year; resorting in summer to jagged cHffs, where immense numbers may often be found breeding in close proximity. There are colonies on Lundy Island off North Devon, the Scilly Islands, Wales, the Isle of Man, Flamborough Head, and the Fame Islands; and, on the east side of Scotland, at the Bass Rock, the Isle of May, and Dunbuy in Aberdeenshire; while in the Orkneys, Shetlands, and
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. I-ARIDiT,. 683. THE KITTIWAKE GULL. RfssA TRiDACTYLA (Luiiiaeus). The Kittiwake—characterized by an obsolete hind-toe—is to be found in British waters throughout the year; resorting in summer to jagged cHffs, where immense numbers may often be found breeding in close proximity. There are colonies on Lundy Island off North Devon, the Scilly Islands, Wales, the Isle of Man, Flamborough Head, and the Fame Islands; and, on the east side of Scotland, at the Bass Rock, the Isle of May, and Dunbuy in Aberdeenshire; while in the Orkneys, Shetlands, and Hebrides thousands of birds whiten the precipices, and the ' gullery' on the Shiant Islands is probably the most extensive in Great Britain. In Ireland, too, this Gull is extremely plentiful on the precipitous portions of the sea-board. On the Continent the Kittiwake is not known to nest further south than Brittany, but in winter it ascends the Garonne as far as Toulouse, and probably proceeds thence to the Mediterranean, where it is not uncommon as far as Sicily; it also visits the Black and Caspian Seas, probably crossing Russia from the north. Its southern range extends to the Canaries on this side of the Atlantic,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907. London, Gurney and Jackson
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