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Artukhin, Y.B. 1999. Cadaster of seabird colonies of the Commander Islands. The biology and conservation of the birds of Kamchatka. Issue 1, pp. 25-35.

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Byrd, G.V.; Williams , J.C.; Renner, H.M. 2004. Ledge-nesting seabirds at Chagulak Island in 2004. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Serv. Rep. AMNWR 04/21.

Byrd, G.V.; Williams, J.C. 1993. Red-legged Kittiwake Rissa brevirostris. In: Poole, A.; Gill, F.B. (ed.), The birds of North America, No. 60, pp. 1-12. Academy of Natural Sciences and American Ornithologists' Union, Philadelphia and Washington, DC.

Byrd, G.V.; Williams, J.C.; Arthukhin, Y.B.; Vyatkin, P.S. 1997. Trends in the populations of Red-legged Kittiwake Rissa brevirostris, a Bering Sea endemic. Bird Conservation International 7: 167-180.

Cole, L. W.; Nelson, K. N.; Sterling, J. C. 2006. The 30th report of the California bird records committee: 2004 records. Western Birds 37: 65-105.

Gibson, D. D.; Byrd, G. V. 2007. Birds of the Aleutian Islands, Alaska. Series in Ornithology 1. Nuttall Ornithological Club and American Ornithologists’ Union.

Goyert, H.F.; Garton, E.O.; Drummond, B.A.; Renner, H.M. 2017. Density dependence and changes in the carrying capacity of Alaskan seabird populations. Biological Conservation 209: 178-187.

Hickey, J.J.; Craighead, F.L. 1977. A census of the seabirds of the Pribilof Islands. Environmental Assessments of the Alaskan Contontinental Shelf, Annual Reports, Vol. 2. OCSEAP, NOAA/BLM, Boulder, Colorado.

Jason, D. T.; Romano, M.D. 2017. Biological monitoring at St. George Island, Alaska in 2016. U.S. Fish and Wildl. Serv. Rep., AMNWR 2017/01.

Kitaysky, A.S.; Kitaiskaia, E.V.; Piatt, J.F.; Wingfield, J. C. 2006. A mechanistic link between chick diet and decline in seabirds? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 273(1585): 445-450.

Kitaysky, A.S.; Kitaiskaia, E.V.; Wingfield, J.C.; Piatt, J. F. 2001. Dietary restriction causes chronic elevation of corticosterone and enhances stress response in red-legged kittiwake chicks. Journal of Comparative Physiology B: Biochemical, Systemic, and Environmental Physiology 171(8): 701-709.

Kokubun, N.; Yamamoto, T.; Kikuchi, D. M.; Kitaysky, A. S. 2015. Nocturnal foraging by red-legged kittiwakes, a surface feeding seabird that relies on deep water prey during reproduction. PLoS ONE 10(10): e0138850.

Lensink, C.J. 1984. The status and conservation of seabirds in Alaska. In: Croxall, J.P.; Evans, P.G.H.; Schreiber, R.W. (ed.), Status and conservation of the world's seabirds, pp. 13-27. International Council for Bird Preservation, Cambridge, U.K.

Orben, R. A.; Irons, D. B.; Paredes, R.; Roby, D. D.; Phillips R. A.; Shaffer, S. A. 2015. North or south? Niche separation of endemic red-legged kittiwakes and sympatric black-legged kittiwakes during their non-breeding migrations. Journal of Biogeography 42: 401-412.

Thomson, G.; Drummond, B.A.; Romano, M.D. 2014. Biological monitoring at St. Paul Island, Alaska in 2014. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Reports, AMNWR 2014/12.

U.S. Geological Survey-Alaska Science Center (USGS-ASC). 2015. North Pacific Pelagic Seabird Database Ver. 2.0 . Available at: https://dx.doi.org/10.5066/F7WQ01T3.

Vyatkin, P.S.; Artyukhin, Y.B. 1994. Seabird Counts on the Commander Islands in 1993. Beringian Seabird Bulletin. Number 2, 1994.

Zador, S.; Hunt Jr, G.L.; TenBrink, T.; Aydin, K. 2013. Combined seabird indices show lagged relationships between environmental conditions and breeding activity. Marine Ecology Progress Series 485: 245-258.

Detailed species accounts from the Threatened birds of Asia: the BirdLife International Red Data Book (BirdLife International 2001).

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BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Red-legged Kittiwake Rissa brevirostris. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/red-legged-kittiwake-rissa-brevirostris on 23/12/2024.
Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2024) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/search on 23/12/2024.