“Named” by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán

“ Named “

by Suzán Jiván Mom & Mom-Mom Suzán

Named for its call of, “Kittiwake”
showing dark smudges across the nape
Pacific Ranges reddish-coral legs
pelagic takes crustaceans from ships
nesting on sides of buildings
laying semielliptical speckled eggs
incubation 25-32 days
returns to nests at night
after first flights migrating
over open oceans as seen over
the arctic and the subarctic drinking
only salt water shorter broader billed
swimming dipping for small fish
tail black tipped big black letters
stretching from wing tip to wing tip
while uttering, “ock-ock-ock” ...