: a seabird (Fulmarus glacialis) of colder northern seas closely related to the petrels
also
: a related bird (F. glacialoides) of circumpolar distribution in colder southern seas
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Seabirds like puffins, fulmars and guillemots nest on the rocky cliffs of the islands.
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Avery Schuyler Nunn, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Dec. 2024
Photograph: David Merron/Getty Images Northern fulmars and Cory’s shearwaters are masters of the sea and air, gliding above the waves and plunging into the water to snag fish, squid, and crustaceans.
—WIRED, 27 Mar. 2023
The team studied 58 Cory’s shearwaters that had died from colliding with buildings in the Azores archipelago in Portugal and 27 northern fulmars that were shot in collaboration with Inuit hunters in Baffin Bay, Canada.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Apr. 2023
The researchers behind today’s paper dissected 85 northern fulmars and Cory’s shearwaters caught in the wild.
—WIRED, 27 Mar. 2023
One gray fulmar seemed to relish the water pouring out of an out-flow tube — swimming right up to the waterfall and then scampering aside, only to repeat.
—Susanne Rust, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Jan. 2022
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Avery Schuyler Nunn, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Dec. 2024
Photograph: David Merron/Getty Images Northern fulmars and Cory’s shearwaters are masters of the sea and air, gliding above the waves and plunging into the water to snag fish, squid, and crustaceans.
—WIRED, 27 Mar. 2023
The team studied 58 Cory’s shearwaters that had died from colliding with buildings in the Azores archipelago in Portugal and 27 northern fulmars that were shot in collaboration with Inuit hunters in Baffin Bay, Canada.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Apr. 2023
The researchers behind today’s paper dissected 85 northern fulmars and Cory’s shearwaters caught in the wild.
—WIRED, 27 Mar. 2023
One gray fulmar seemed to relish the water pouring out of an out-flow tube — swimming right up to the waterfall and then scampering aside, only to repeat.
—Susanne Rust, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Jan. 2022
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“Fulmar.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fulmar. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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