Fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) The fulmar is one of two species of seabirds that have spread from colonies in the British Isles and established themselves as breeding birds in Norway during this century (the other is the gannet).
They offered the opinion that a round trip of 960 km to one of the dark morph colonies in the Aleutians just might be within the operating range of a fulmar on a 4-day vacation from nest-tending duties.
Eggs of terns and gulls can be collected for food in southwest Greenland to 1 July, and in northwest Greenland to 10 July; fulmar and murre eggs can also be collected in northwest Greenland.
The geographical variation of the fulmar (Fulmarus glacealis) and the zones of marine environment in the North Atlantic.
The fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) and the gannet (Sula bassana) have both spread from the British Isles and have established a number of breeding colonies in Norway during this century.
The fulmar is common in the offshore waters of the northern Gulf of Alaska throughout most of the year (Isleib and Kessel 1973).
Species Accounts Northern Fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) Petrels of a number of species can be found in the Gulf of Alaska, some of them in great numbers.
Surface feeding species commonly found at the ice front include the northern fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) and five species of gulls.
Fulmar colonies may be found in the Chiswell Islands.
Only three species breed in the area under consideration: the fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) and two storm-petrels (Oceanodroma spp.
Then the surface would be as bad as ever again, and one day when I had to go out on the ice to fetch a fulmar which had been wounded, the snow was so soft that I constantly sank in up to my waist.
It was not until June 10th that we secured the first game, when the doctor succeeded in shooting a fulmar and a kittiwake (Larus tridactylus).
A little while later a fulmar came sailing towards us, and flew round and round just over our heads.
Alongside of it, to the southeast, there was a small rocky knoll, where numbers of fulmar (Procellaria glacialis) seemed to be breeding.
That day we saw our first bird; a fulmar (Procellaria glacialis).
The Fairey Fulmar fighter plane looked as though it had been jammed through a meat grinder.
It was not enough, though, for the mysterious Swordfish pilot to know that the Fulmar was crippled and going down.
So when we took off in the Fulmar that some one tagged after us in that Swordfish.
Even as the words raced off his lips he kicked the Fulmar through a vicious half roll and then hung it on its prop.
And so in the last split instant of time Dave hauled up the nose of the Fulmar in order to save Freddy and himself from certain instant death.
The Fulmar was streaking down like a comet straight from Heaven, but the U-boat wasn't losing any time in crash diving.
You can be sure that the Jerries are just aching to shoot down a Fulmar and get a good look at it.
This Fulmar is a new job, you know, and it would be a feather in the raider captain's cap to take one back to port.
Anyway, he kicked the Fulmar off its stall and went sliding off and down to the right.
Hardly realizing that he was doing so, Dave jumped hard on the controls and whipped the Fulmar up over and down in a wing screaming half roll.
Then it flattened out slightly and headed toward the fast sinking Fulmar with throttled engines.
Dave and Freddy saluted, executed a snappy about face and walked on air out of the squadron office and over toward the south side of the field where Six Fairey Fulmar fighter planes were lined up with engines ticking over.
The story begins when the fulmar carries Sedna to his home and she discovers that he has brought her to a very wretched tent.
It has been related in the foregoing tradition of Sedna and the fulmar that she descended to Adlivun; since that time she has been the mistress of the country, and when invoked as such has the name of Idliragijenget.
The fulmar follows their boat and causes a heavy gale to rise which almost upsets it.
Finally, at the breaking up of the ice in the spring a fulmar flew from over the ice and wooed Sedna with enticing song.
The birds, which had hitherto been seen since our first approach to the ice, were fulmar peterels, little auks, looms, and a few gulls.
The fulmar petrel lays but one egg, yet it is believed to be the most numerous bird in the world.
The fulmar petrel exists in myriads at St. Kilda and other haunts of the species, yet it lays only one egg.
The statement as to the fulmar petrel, which Professor A.
From its power of wing and its general habits, the fulmar of the north may be likened to the albatross of the southern hemisphere.
The flesh of the Fulmar is also a favourite food with the St. Kildans, who like it all the better on account of its oily nature.
To the Fulmar indeed, and in a less degree to the Gannet and two or three other sea-birds, the island is indebted for its being able to boast of human inhabitants.
Eggs and birds, fresh or salted, furnish them with food; the Fulmar with oil: and feathers pay their rent.
Owing to the rankness of its food, the smell of the Fulmar is very offensive.
And his wife began, and said words above him thus: "Do not wake until the fulmar begins to cry: sleep until we hear a sound of young birds.
The earth was blue with summer, and the fulmar cried noisily on the bird cliff.
Now and then a Fulmar would be caught in the flight nets, and Little Gulls and Great Gray Shrikes appear, whilst the late autumn days sometimes brings a succession of flocks of Ring Doves and many odd Bitterns.
The Fulmar commences to breed in May, the eggs being laid from the middle of that month onwards to early June.
Beyond a small portion of dry grass the Fulmar makes no nest, although some we found on Doon were hollows lined with small bits of rock.
Darwin had certainly strong grounds for asserting that the Fulmar is the most numerous bird in the world.
The Fulmar is the largest indigenous British species, and looks very like a Gull as it flies about over the water.
Every time a fulmar came under, I darted my right hand over, catching him by the neck and taking him on board.
As soon as a whale is killed, the fulmar petrels (P.
Our friends, the fulmar petrels, were always with us upon occasions of this kind, and all that were in the Sound, I think, spent the day with us.
The silver-grey or Southern Fulmar petrels were present in large numbers, especially about the steep north-eastern side of the island.
Cape Hunter had been the home of the Antarctic petrels, and on this occasion we were singularly fortunate in finding a resort of the Southern Fulmar or silver-grey petrels.
The Fulmar Petrel is one of the most familiar birds of high latitudes, following in the wake of whaling vessels and sealers, and known to the sailors by the name of "Molly Mawk.
The typical race of the Fulmar is an inhabitant of the North Atlantic basin, ranging southwards in winter as low as the latitude of New York in the west, and Gibraltar in the east.
During the Fulmar harvest in autumn, the birds, as they are taken, are made to vomit this oil into dried gullets of the Gannet, which the fowler carries for the purpose hung round his waist.
The Fulmar is extremely gregarious during the breeding season, and many thousands of birds congregate here during the summer.
Wherever possible, the Fulmar evidently likes to burrow into the ground, but the hole in most cases is not big enough to conceal the bird.
When caught, the Fulmar vomits a quantity of clear amber-coloured oil, and a little flows from the nostrils.
The Fulmar Petrel becomes by far the most interesting at its breeding stations.
The Fulmar lays but a single egg each season, white in colour, rough and chalky in texture, and with a strong pungent smell, which is retained by the shell for years after the egg has been taken.
The note which so astonished me never came from very near; I heard it, as I have said before, only occasionally, and it always seemed to come from a part of the rock where a few pairs of fulmar petrels were sitting.
Similar, but much more striking, is the nuptial behaviour of the fulmar petrel.
I had meant to see the fulmar petrels again before returning, but by the time I get to the top of the path leading down to them it is nearly six, the drizzle increasing, and the mist on the hills thickening.
There was another point on which "Fulmar Petrel" took exception to what I said about him--or rather to what I seemed to say.
Footnote 5: The idea that the fulmar petrel never flies over the land is a delusion.
I mention the fulmar petrel as well as the guillemot, because, whatever may be the case elsewhere, here these birds lay on the bare rock without a shadow of a nest.
One cannot, indeed, watch for long the flight of the fulmar petrel without becoming dissatisfied, or at least critical, in regard to that of other sea-birds.
We were hardly out of Brentford Bay when fulmar petrels and white whales were seen; the first we have noticed for eleven and a half months.
