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Northern Fulmar Picture @ Kiwifoto.com
 
 
Location: Flatey Island, Iceland
GPS: 65.4N, -22.9W, elev=5' MAP
Date: June 13, 2018
ID : 7C2V8501 [3888 x 2592]

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Northern Fulmar Photo @ Kiwifoto.com
 
 
Location: Saint Paul, Pribilof Islands, AK
GPS: 57.1N, -170.3W, elev=28' MAP
Date: June 1, 2012
ID : B13K8239 [4896 x 3264]

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Northern Fulmar Picture @ Kiwifoto.com
 
 
Location: Saint Paul, Pribilof Islands, AK
GPS: 57.1N, -170.3W, elev=28' MAP
Date: June 1, 2012
ID : B13K8189 [4896 x 3264]

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Northern Fulmar Image @ Kiwifoto.com
 
 
Location: Saint Paul, Pribilof Islands, AK
GPS: 57.1N, -170.3W, elev=28' MAP
Date: June 1, 2012
ID : B13K8614 [4896 x 3264]

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Northern Fulmar Picture @ Kiwifoto.com
 
 
Location: Orange County (pelagic waters), CA
GPS: 33.5N, -118.1W, depth=-762' MAP
Date: February 28, 2016
ID : B13K0666 [4896 x 3264]

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Northern Fulmar Image @ Kiwifoto.com
 
 
Location: Orange County (pelagic waters), CA
GPS: 33.5N, -118.1W, depth=-762' MAP
Date: February 28, 2016
ID : B13K0953 [4896 x 3264]

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Northern Fulmar Picture @ Kiwifoto.com
 
 
Location: Orange County (pelagic waters), CA
GPS: 33.5N, -118.1W, depth=-762' MAP
Date: February 28, 2016
ID : B13K0961 [4896 x 3264]

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Northern Fulmar Photo @ Kiwifoto.com
 
 
Location: Orange County (pelagic waters), CA
GPS: 33.5N, -118.1W, depth=-762' MAP
Date: February 28, 2016
ID : B13K0976 [4896 x 3264]

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Northern Fulmar Photo @ Kiwifoto.com
 
 
Location: Tijuana (Coronados Islands), Mexico
GPS: 32.6N, -117.4W, depth=-510' MAP
Date: April 4, 2009
ID : 7C2V6585 [3888 x 2592]

Northern Fulmar Picture @ Kiwifoto.com
 
 
Location: Tijuana (Coronados Islands), Mexico
GPS: 32.6N, -117.4W, depth=-1,279' MAP
Date: April 4, 2009
ID : 7C2V6663 [3888 x 2592]

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Northern Fulmar Picture @ Kiwifoto.com
 
 
Location: Tijuana (Coronados Islands), Mexico
GPS: 32.6N, -117.4W, depth=-1,637' MAP
Date: April 4, 2009
ID : 7C2V6633 [3888 x 2592]

Northern Fulmar (light morph)
 
 
Location: Santa Barbara Channel, CA
GPS: 34.2N, -120.8W, depth=-2,544' MAP
Date: March 1, 2009
ID : 7C2V5260 [3888 x 2592]

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Northern Fulmar (light morph)
 
 
Location: Monterey Bay (Pelagic Trip), CA
GPS: 36.7N, -122.3W, depth=-3,647' MAP
Date: October 11, 2008
ID : 7C2V9976 [3888 x 2592]

Northern Fulmar (light morph)
 
 
Location: Santa Barbara Channel, CA
GPS: 34.2N, -120.8W, depth=-2,544' MAP
Date: March 1, 2009
ID : 7C2V5254 [3888 x 2592]

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Northern Fulmar Photo @ Kiwifoto.com
 
 
Location: Tijuana (Coronado Islands), Mexico
GPS: 32.4N, -117.2W, elev=0' MAP
Date: March 15, 2008
ID : 6028 [3888 x 2592]

Northern Fulmar Picture @ Kiwifoto.com
 
 
Location: Tijuana (Coronado Islands), Mexico
GPS: 32.4N, -117.2W, elev=0' MAP
Date: March 15, 2008
ID : 6009 [3888 x 2592]

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Northern Fulmar Image @ Kiwifoto.com
 
 
Location: Tijuana (Coronado Islands), Mexico
GPS: 32.4N, -117.2W, elev=0' MAP
Date: March 15, 2008
ID : 5933 [3888 x 2592]

Northern Fulmar Image @ Kiwifoto.com
 
 
Location: Tijuana (Coronado Islands), Mexico
GPS: 32.4N, -117.2W, elev=0' MAP
Date: March 15, 2008
ID : 5961 [3888 x 2592]

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Northern Fulmar Picture @ Kiwifoto.com
 
 
Location: Tijuana (Coronado Islands), Mexico
GPS: 32.4N, -117.2W, elev=0' MAP
Date: March 15, 2008
ID : 5981 [3888 x 2592]

Northern Fulmar Image @ Kiwifoto.com
 
 
Location: Tijuana (Coronado Islands), Mexico
GPS: 32.4N, -117.2W, elev=0' MAP
Date: March 15, 2008
ID : 5985 [3888 x 2592]

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Northern Fulmar Photo @ Kiwifoto.com
 
 
Location: Tijuana (Coronado Islands), Mexico
GPS: 32.4N, -117.2W, elev=0' MAP
Date: March 15, 2008
ID : 6021 [3888 x 2592]

Northern Fulmar Image @ Kiwifoto.com
 
 
Location: Tijuana (Coronado Islands), Mexico
GPS: 32.4N, -117.2W, elev=0' MAP
Date: March 15, 2008
ID : 6065 [3888 x 2592]

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Northern Fulmar Photo @ Kiwifoto.com
 
 
Location: Tijuana (Coronado Islands), Mexico
GPS: 32.4N, -117.2W, elev=0' MAP
Date: March 15, 2008
ID : 6108 [3888 x 2592]

Northern Fulmar Photo @ Kiwifoto.com
 
 
Location: Tijuana (Coronado Islands), Mexico
GPS: 32.4N, -117.2W, elev=0' MAP
Date: March 15, 2008
ID : 6123 [3888 x 2592]

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Northern Fulmar Image @ Kiwifoto.com
 
 
Location: Tijuana (Coronado Islands), Mexico
GPS: 32.4N, -117.2W, elev=0' MAP
Date: March 15, 2008
ID : 6229 [3888 x 2592]

Northern Fulmar Photo @ Kiwifoto.com
 
 
Location: Tijuana (Coronado Islands), Mexico
GPS: 32.4N, -117.2W, elev=0' MAP
Date: March 15, 2008
ID : 6231 [3888 x 2592]

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Northern Fulmar Picture @ Kiwifoto.com
 
 
Location: El Segundo (Dockweiler State Beach), CA
GPS: 33.9N, -118.4W, elev=14' MAP
Date: April 13, 2009
ID : 7C2V7147 [3888 x 2592]

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SPECIES INFO

The Northern Fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis), or Arctic Fulmar lives in the north Atlantic and north Pacific. These fulmars look superficially like gulls, but are unrelated, and are in fact petrels. The species is grey and white with a yellow bill, 43-52 cm in length with a 101-117 cm wingspan. The Northern Fulmar has both a light morph and dark morph plumage.

The Northern Fulmar breeds on cliffs, laying a single white egg. Unlike many small to medium birds in the Procellariiformes they are neither nocturnal breeders, nor do they use burrows; their eggs are laid on the bare rock or in shallow depressions lined with plant material. Nesting birds and chicks can eject an evil smelling stomach oil up to 2 m, which repels unwanted visitors. It will matt the plumage of avian predators, and can lead to their death. Northern Fulmars historically bred on St. Kilda, and spread into northern Scotland in the 19th century, and to the rest of the United Kingdom by 1930. For example, establishment of colonies at the Fowlsheugh Reserve in Scotland was one of the first areas to be developed for new permanent Fulmar breeding areas. This bird is a highly colonial nester.

They are highly pelagic outside the breeding season, like most tubenoses, feeding on fish, oil or offal. Recent studies in the North Sea have shown them especially susceptible to plastic discards. The range of these species increased greatly last century due to the availability of fish offal from commercial fleets, but may contract because of less food from this source and climatic change. The population increase has been especially notable in the British Isles.

Like other petrels, their walking ability is limited, but they are strong fliers, with a stiff wing action quite unlike the gulls. They look bull-necked compared to gulls, and have short stubby bills. They are long-lived, with a lifespan of 40 years not uncommon.

The Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy gives a radically different scientific arrangement for this group based on DNA studies.




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