Diet Overlap

Rissa tridactyla (Black-legged Kittiwake)
Balaenoptera acutorostrata (Minke Whale)

Common Diet

Ammodytes hexapterus (Stout sand lance)
Ammodytes marinus (sand eel)
Gadus chalcogrammus (Whiting)
Mallotus villosus (Capelin)
Thysanoessa inermis
Thysanoessa longipes
Thysanoessa raschii (Arctic krill)

Common Habitat

California Coast Ranges Biosphere Reserve
Cape Cod National Seashore
Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary
Channel Islands National Park
Dee Estuary/ Aber Dyfrdwy
Farallon National Wildlife Refuge
Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
Forillon National Park
Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve
Kronotskiy Biosphere Reserve
Luce Bay and Sands
Mingan Archipelago National Park Reserve
Moray Firth
Mull of Galloway
Pacific Rim National Park Reserve
Point Reyes National Seashore
Redwood National Park
Reserva de la Biosfera El Vizcaino
Saguenay - St. Lawrence Marine Park
Sefton Coast
Terra Nova National Park

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Food Web Relationships of Northern Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de Fuca : a Synthesis of the Available Knowledge, Charles A. Simenstad, Bruce S. Miller, Carl F. Nyblade, Kathleen Thornburgh, and Lewis J. Bledsoe, EPA-600 7-29-259 September 1979
♦ 2An estimate of summer food consumption of six seabird species in Iceland, K. Lilliendahl and J. Solmundsson, ICES Journal of Marine Science, 54: 624–630. 1997
♦ 3Diet of minke whales Balaenoptera acutorostrata in Scottish (UK) waters with notes on strandings of this species in Scotland 1992-2002, G.J. Pierce, M.B. Santos, R.J. Reid, I.A.P. Patterson and H.M. Ross, J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. (2004), 84, 1241-1244