name for bird genus Rissa, two closely related seabird species in the gull family Laridae, the Black-legged kittiwake (R. tridactyla) and the Red-legged kittiwake (R. brevirostris). The name is derived from its call, a shrill "kittee-wa-aaake, kitte-wa-aaake"
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