What's the difference between kittiwake and tarrock?
Kittiwake
Definition:
(n.) A northern gull (Rissa tridactyla), inhabiting the coasts of Europe and America. It is white, with black tips to the wings, and has but three toes.
Example Sentences:
(1) In June, coastal birds such as choughs, kittiwakes and razorbills bred late and reared few young.
(2) Winners and losers Going: Species facing "severe" threats in England Red squirrel Northern bluefin tuna Natterjack toad Common skate Alpine foxtail Kittiwake Grey plover Shrill carder bumblebee Recovering: Recent conservation success stories Pole cat Large blue butterfly Red kite Ladybird spider Pink meadowcap Sand lizard Pool frog Bittern
(3) were isolated from 15 out of 51 samples from Kittiwakes: 2 x C. jejuni biovar 1 and 13 x C. laridis.
(4) Like the Kittiwake (CULLEN 1957), the cliff-nesting pairs still accept other chicks after the 1st week of life.
(5) In Kittiwakes and Guillemots mainly Spiruroideae were recorded.
(6) Between 1982 and 1985 the cadavers of 50 Guillemots (Uria aalge), 41 Kittiwakes (Rissa tridactyla), 26 Herring Gulls (Larus argentatus) and 34 Black-headed Gulls (Larus ridibundus) were examined pathological, bacteriological and virological.
(7) Nine strains of Avalon virus were isolated from Ixodes uriae ticks collected in the Cape Sizun seabird reserve, Brittany, from 1979 to 1985, during a longitudinal study of consequences of tick-borne infections for kittiwakes (Rissa tridactyla).
(8) Sea temperature changes are threatening the availability of sandeels , a major food source for seabirds including kittiwakes and guillemots, whose colonies in Scotland have seen major population crashes .
(9) This tick infests nesting colonies of the common tern, roseate tern, sandwich tern, herring gull (northern and Mediterranean races), common cormorant, shag, razorbill, common murre, black-legged kittiwake, and probably other marine birds nesting nearby.
(10) Mioctenopsylla arctica arctica was recorded in kittiwake nests on Spitzbergen and in one nesting cliff in the most arctic part of mainland Norway, where it also was the dominating species.
(11) Ceratophyllus garei, the only flea species in Larus gull's nests, was present in small numbers in nests of kittiwakes and shags in the southern part of the investigation area.
(12) The majority of the examined Kittiwakes and Herring Gulls were victims of pathogenic agents.
(13) Ceratophyllus vagabundus insularis was recorded in all typical nesting cliffs in mainland Norway in nests of puffins, shags, cormorants, and kittiwakes, but not in nests of gulls.
Tarrock
Definition:
(n.) The young of the kittiwake gull before the first molt.