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Rahane, C., & Bramhankar, S., 2013. First record of Black-legged Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla from Maharashtra, India. Indian BIRDS 8 (3): 69 55. Black-legged Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla in Chinmay Rahane, M-4, Sankul Condominium, Erandwane, Pune 411004, Maharashtra, India. Email: [email protected] Akshi, Maharashtra. Siddhesh Bramhankar, c/o S. K. Wani, 4-Swapnasiddhi, Rane Nagar, Khudane Road, Nizampur, Taluka Sakri, Dhule 424305, Maharashtra, India. Email: [email protected]. Manuscript received on 13 January 2013.

he Black-legged Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla is a gull (Laridae) Mark Newsome of the Kittiwake from 2005 in Goa. We found no found mainly in North America and Europe. It breeds other records from India, and to the best of our knowledge, this Talong coastlines or inlands in the North Pacific and Atlantic is the second record of the Black-legged Kittiwake from India and oceans, and is common near fishing ports and colonies near first from Maharashtra. the sea. It winters at sea, ranging across much of the North Atlantic and Pacific oceans (del Hoyo et al.1996; Svensson et Acknowledgements al.2009). Grimmett et al. describe it as a vagrant to the Indian Subcontinent. We would like to thank Adesh Shivkar and Saurabh Sawant for confirmation of identification. During a birding visit to the coast of Maharashtra on 24 November 2012, at Akshi in Alibag district, Maharashtra (18°36’8’’N, 72°53’53’’E), we spotted an odd looking gull [55], References standing alongside a group of Lesser Sand Plovers Charadrius AVIBASE: www.avibase.bsc-eoc.org mongolus and Greater Sand Plovers C. leschenaultii. It resembled Chatterjee, S., 2012. URL: http://orientalbirdimages.org/birdimages.php?action=bird a juvenile Gull-billed Tern Sterna nilotica at first sight. Unsure of species&Bird_ID=966&Bird_Image_ID=68197 Accessed on 30 November 2012. its identity we took a few photographs for later. The bird had a del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., & Sargatal, J., (eds.) 1996. Handbook of the birds of the world. prominent black collar, dark primaries, and a black band across Volume 3. Hoatzin to Auks. 1st ed. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions. Vol. 3 of 16 vols: Pp. 1–821. median coverts, dark ear spot, dark legs and thin looking beak Grimmett, R., Inskipp, C., & Inskipp, T., 2011. Birds of the Indian Subcontinent. 2nd ed. and different structure. A literature search (Grimmett et al. 2011; London: Oxford University Press & Christopher Helm. Pp. 1–528. Kazmierczak 2000) did not help in identification. Kazmierczak, K., 2000. A field guide to the birds of India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal, An online search on www.orientalbirdimages.org yielded a Bhutan, Bangladesh and the Maldives. 1st ed. New Delhi: Om Book Service. Pp. clue with the first image of the Black-legged Kittiwake by Sujan 1–352. Chatterjee, which he reported on 30 November 2012 from Newsome, M., 2005. URL: http://orientalbirdimages.org/photographers.php?p=2&actio Assam. I compared his image to ours and found great similarity. n=birderimages&Bird_Image_ID=10480&Birder_ID=388 Accessed on 30 Novem- Referring to Svensson et al. (2009) and Avibase, an online ber 2012. Svensson, L., Mullarney, K & Zetterstrӧm, D. 2009. Birds of Europe. Princeton University checklist database, we confirmed the species’ identity. Apart Press. from Chatterjee’s record, we found only one other image by