Whether these Fulmars will give us the service Coastal Command demands remains to be seen.
We've got Fulmars here, and they are to stay for keeps.
We had hitherto been so used to a noisy din as an inseparable accompaniment to a gathering of sea-fowl that the silence of these Fulmars seemed almost weirdly strange.
The St. Kildans are expert fowlers, snaring the Fulmars as they sit upon their nests, with long rods to which a horse-hair noose is attached.
We specially recall his lively ways at St. Kilda, when of an evening we used to wander up the heights of Connacher to watch the Fulmars and admire the glorious sunsets that canopied the lonely Atlantic.
This performance seemed to me cruel at first, but after watching it for a little while, I decided that the exercise was good for the fulmars and did not hurt them.
All theFulmars drifted to and fro in silence; not a single bird uttered a cry.
Just before the summit was reached, a few Fulmars could be seen flying above the cliff, then dropping behind the ridge out of sight.
Time can never efface the vivid scene that was presented to me, as for the first time I peered over the mighty cliff Connacher, and viewed the countless hosts of Fulmars at their nesting-places.
When disturbed by the firing of a gun, the Fulmars and other sea-birds leave the rocks in masses so dense, that one is apt to think the entire face of the cliffs is crumbling away.
As the Fulmars bear a superficial resemblance to the Gulls, so may the Shearwaters be compared with the Auks.
Suddenly a seal rose in front of us, and over us flew continually ivory-gulls and fulmars and kittiwakes.
Outside the fulmars were sailing in their silent, ghost-like flight to and fro over the surface of the water.
Another thing which made us believe in the close vicinity of the sea was that we were daily visited by ivory-gulls and fulmars (Procellaria glacialis), sometimes skuas also.
We have had no food for the dogs the last few days except the ivory-gulls and fulmarswe have been able to shoot, and that has been a couple a day.
Fulmars are often found close to Afognak Island in the area between Sea Lion Rocks and Sea Otter Island.
It was not determined whether the fulmarswere moving with the shearwaters or on a regular feeding flight.
St. Matthew Island and associated Hall and Pinnacle islands, and all but Walrus Island of the Pribilofs, are sites of nesting northern fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis).
Gabrielson and Lincoln (1959) reported seeing swarms of fulmars in Marmot Strait and around the small islands on the north side of Afognak in early August.
Herring could, therefore, be taken during most of their lives by murres but during only the first few years by smaller birds such as fulmarsand shearwaters.
More recently, small numbers of apparently breeding fulmars have been found in the Barren Islands (L.
Using this as a general yardstick, it appears that the rich foraging grounds over the Portlock Banks might also be within the range of breeding fulmars from the Semidis.
Murie (1959) noted fulmarsin Shelikof Strait and again around the Shumagin Islands.
Meantime the storm subsided, for the fulmars thought Sedna was drowned.
When the other fulmars came home and found their companion dead and his wife gone, they all flew away in search of the fugitives.
I ought to mention that it is the young fulmars that are caught in autumn.
A pile of fulmarshas been collected beside us, and the men whilst they rest economise time by extracting the oil.
The bottom of this tremendous cliff had been cleared of fulmars the previous day by men who had ascended from boats.
When the fulmars and oil are carried home they are equally divided.
About the end of August all the fulmars leave St Kilda and take the young to sea for their education.
The old fulmars are caught in summer when hatching; a noose tied to the end of a rod being slipped over their heads.
Having caught as many fulmars as he could carry, we descended to the rocks where we had landed.
Far down I could just distinguish two of our crew, who were busy catching fulmars on the rocks, and the boat floating like a tiny mussel-shell at the base.
Hundreds of puffins and fulmars were in the air, and skimming the waters.
The fulmars poised themselves on their long wings; the fat little puffins poffled about in the water, and made a great commotion where everything else was quiet.
The month of July set in more favourably; and aided by fresh breezes we advanced rapidly to the westward, attended daily by numerous fulmars and shearwaters.
The month of July set in more favourably; and, aided by fresh breezes, we advanced rapidly to the westward, attended daily by numerous fulmars and shearwaters.
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