To the distinguished ornithologist and broadcaster James Fisher, the fulmar was the nearest thing we had to an albatross in the North Atlantic. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Lagged effects of ocean climate change on fulmar population dynamics. From Wordnik.com. [Effects of climate change on the biodiversity of the Arctic] Reference
In addition, the Antarctic fulmar breeds on nearby islands and is regularly observed. From Wordnik.com. [South Orkney Islands] Reference
Large flocks of northern fulmar Fulmarus glacialis and gulls feed among the grounded icebergs. From Wordnik.com. [Ilulissat Icefjord, Denmark-Greenland] Reference
His personal worst was a study on fulmar bird carcasses washed ashore on North Sea coastlines. From Wordnik.com. [Plague of Plastics Across the Oceans] Reference
He wrote a monograph on the fulmar and the still unsurpassed Shell Bird Book, a vade mecum of the cultural and natural history of British birds. From Wordnik.com. [A Year on the Wing] Reference
Additional immigrants from the north during the winter include many birds, such as thick-billed murre, northern fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis), and little auk. From Wordnik.com. [Fisheries and aquaculture in the Newfoundland and Labrador Seas, Northeastern Canada] Reference
Some species characteristic of Marielandia are: southern fulmar (Fulmaras glacialoides); southern giant fulmar (Macronectes giganteus); cape pigeon (Daption capense); snow petrel (Pagodroma nivea). From Wordnik.com. [Antarctic Peninsula] Reference
Large concentrations of seabirds congregate in the warmer coastal margins, including the northern fulmar, thick-billed murres, black-legged kitiwakes, common ringed plover, hoary redpoll and snow bunting. From Wordnik.com. [Arctic Cordillera ecoregion (CEC)] Reference
Occasionally the ghostly shadows of silver, snow, and fulmar petrels flashed close to us, and all around we could hear the killers blowing, their short, sharp hisses sounding like sudden escapes of steam. From Wordnik.com. [South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917] Reference
Stinging, ringing spindrift, nor the fulmar flying free. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Seas] Reference
Stringing, ringing spindrift nor the fulmar flying free. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Chantey] Reference
Peregrine, raven and fulmar nest on Gore Cliff above the landslip. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
In calm conditions, a fulmar has been recorded keeping up with a steamer travelling at. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
The birds with us: Antarctic and snow petrel -- a fulmar -- and this morning Cape pigeon. From Wordnik.com. [Scott's Last Expedition Volume I] Reference
The fulmar petrel exists in myriads at St. Kilda and other haunts of the species, yet it lays only one egg. From Wordnik.com. [Darwinism (1889)] Reference
The statement as to the fulmar petrel, which Professor A. Newton assures me is erroneous, has been modified. From Wordnik.com. [Darwinism (1889)] Reference
We also saw a variety of seabirds -- gannet, fulmar, petrel, skua, guillemot and many other kinds of seagull. From Wordnik.com. [UnderwaterTimes.com News of the Underwater World] Reference
The birds, which had hitherto been seen since our first approach to the ice, were fulmar peterels, little auks, looms, and. From Wordnik.com. [Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 1] Reference
Until 1878, the only British fulmar colony was at St Kilda in the Outer Hebrides and it was rare to see one in English waters. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
One night the father, filled with remorse, came looking for Sedna in his kayak and attempted to rescue her from the dreaded fulmar. From Wordnik.com. [Does Not Exist] Reference
"I was working at a fulmar colony and after a couple of days of fog we'd see fulmars on the sea ice, alive but with their wings broken," Mallory said. From Wordnik.com. [PA Pundits - International] Reference
Then there are whale birds, and cape pigeons, and also the cape dove, which is somewhat larger than the pigeon, and is also known as the 'fulmar petrel.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent] Reference
Two birds, a tern and a fulmar, fly over a composite image of the White Cliffs of Dover merging into the outline of the UK on the same double-page spread. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
A study of fulmar carcases that washed up on North Sea coastlines found that 95 per cent had plastic in their stomachs -- an average of 45 pieces per bird. From Wordnik.com. [EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed] Reference
Near starvation, Sedna was eventually tricked and kidnapped (or rescued, depending how you look at it) by a weird half-human, half-bird creature called a fulmar. From Wordnik.com. [Does Not Exist] Reference
Sometimes birds that for years have been fairly rare or local suddenly come into their own and spread to become almost ubiquitous, such as the fulmar, a miniature albatross and master of the glide, which spread rapidly around Britain after the 1950s. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
On my mantelpiece is a line of skulls: a razorbill, a pink-footed goose, a gray heron, a fulmar, some gulls, and Lucian’s gannet, whose bill with a jagged lightning-strike fracture gives away its cause of death; it must have misjudged a dive. From Wordnik.com. [A Year on the Wing] Reference
Northern fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) III. From Wordnik.com. [Management and conservation of marine mammals and seabirds in the Arctic] Reference
= Mother Carey’s Goose =, the great black petrel or gigantic fulmar of the. From Wordnik.com. [Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3] Reference
2d, the young of Larus glaucescens; 3d, the young of L. occidentalis; 4th, the fulmar petrel of the Pacific (fulmar glacialis glupischa). —. From Wordnik.com. [Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806] Reference
Wide as the salt-winged fulmar gulls. From Wordnik.com. [Songs for a Little House] Reference
In greed it competes with the fulmar. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II] Reference
42 views tags: extract, fulmar television, museo civico, philip pullman, window cakebelly says. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference
3,5,6,72 Northern fulmar Increase. From Wordnik.com. [Management and conservation of marine mammals and seabirds in the Arctic] Reference
), ivory gull, and northern fulmar (Fulmaris glacialis. From Wordnik.com. [Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth] Reference
The birds were more numerous than usual; and, besides the fulmar peterels, boatswains, and kittiwakes, we saw, for the first time, some rotges, dovekies, or black guillemots, and terns, the latter known best to seamen by the name of the Greenland swallow. From Wordnik.com. [Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 1] Reference
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