| 词汇 | kittiwake |
| 释义 | kittiwake noun[ C ] uk /kɪt.ɪ.weɪk/ us /kɪt̬.ɪ.weɪk/ a white and grey sea bird that lives in northern parts of the world: 三趾鸥 Kittiwakes typically breed high on sea cliffs, where they glue their nests of seaweed and mud to the narrowest ledges.三趾鸥通常在高高的海崖上繁殖，把用海藻和泥浆做成的巢穴粘到最狭窄的岩壁上。 Puffins and gannets, guillemots and kittiwakes flock to the cliffs of Flamborough Headland near Bridlington to nest. We found a tiny peninsula with cliffs just high enough for a colony of kittiwakes. The worst affected have been birds such as the terns and kittiwakes, which feed by catching small fish near the sea surface by shallow plunge-diving. Farther down the coast we saw a huge kittiwake colony on an inland cliff. Birds found by or on the sea Adélie penguin albatross booby cormorant curlew fulmar gannet gentoo penguin guillemot gull king penguin oystercatcher penguin petrel plover rockhopper penguin seagull shag skimmer skua Examples of kittiwakekittiwake On this day a large number (> 100) of black-legged kittiwakes were also observed. In the case of kittiwakes, we can measure breeding success. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Iupiat cross from the mainland to gather eggs, primarily from kittiwakes and murres. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Wild goats, golden eagles, breeding fulmars, and kittiwakes frequent the area. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The outer point is about 25 meters high, and serves as a breeding place for guillemot, kittiwakes and ptarmigan. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Apart from the kittiwakes, gulls are typically coastal or inland species, rarely venturing far out to sea. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. While most black-legged kittiwakes do, indeed, have dark-grey legs, some have pinkish-grey to reddish legs, making colouration a somewhat unreliable identifying marker. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Cliffs, islands and sea stacks are a habitat for breeding sea birds such as guillemots, kittiwakes and razor bills, as well as rock doves which can live inland as well. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In common usage, gull-like seabirds that are not technically gulls (e.g. albatrosses, fulmars, kittiwakes, terns and skuas) may also be referred to as' seagulls' by the layperson. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In the black-legged kittiwake (which shares this winter habit) resting metabolism is 40% higher on water than it is in air. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The building has many special features, particularly the roof, which is in the form of a fingerprint counter mould kittiwake, feature of the dinosaurs. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Additionally, kittiwake and ptarmigan are hunted on the east coast. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Nesting birds tend to face the cliff, a habit common among exclusively cliff nesting gulls, such as the black-legged kittiwake. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Other nesting birds include sandwich tern, common tern, arctic tern, black-legged kittiwake, fulmar, three gull species, and eider duck. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The black-legged kittiwake is one of the most numerous of seabirds. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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