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Birds seen on sea-cliffs and rocky islands in the UK: Fulmar |
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Avibase - Northern Fulmar,
Fulmarus glacialis http://www.bsc-eoc.org/avibase/avibase.jsp?pg=summary&lang=EN& id=FD70F7118DFCE1D6&ts=1121594191532/ Check out fact sheet that gives alternative names for the northern fulmar including order, family, scientific, and protonym. Also translations into twelve languages. |
| BBC: Science & Nature - Older
Than Us? http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/animals/birds/weeklyfeature/olderthanus/index.shtml Browse editorial about Scottish ornithologist who studied fulmars and believed that some of the species can live up to eighty years old. Also find colour image of bird. |
| Glasgow Digital Library -
Fulmars http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/keacam/keacam0308.htm Discover some very strange stories and observations about fulmars from centuries past. Includes several naive black and white drawings of the species. |
| Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust
- Fulmar, Fulmarus glacialis http://www.wildlifetrusts.org/index.php?section=environment:species:bird&id=45/ Field identification made easier by studying colour illustration of single fulmar nesting and pair in flight. Shares written description about appearance, habitat, and diet. |
| Isle of Man Birding - Fulmar http://www.homepages.mcb.net/wormwell/pages/fulmar.htm Identifies exactly where and when to sight fulmars on small island in the Irish Sea. Also offers colour photographs of the species on the ground, in water, and in flight. |
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National Maritime Museum -
Seabirds Ingest Bellyfuls of Plastic
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/ConWebDoc.18821/ Read this extraordinary account of huge numbers of fulmars found with bits of plastic in their stomachs. Also find out what the plastics industry has to say about the matter. |
| The National Oceanography
Centre - Northern Fulmar
http://www.soc.soton.ac.uk/marine_wildlife/fulmars-jellyfish.html Learn more about the northern fulmars with these observations of strange behaviour including eating live jellyfish. Uncovers total lack of mealtime manners. |
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USGS - Northern Fulmar http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/framlst/i0860id.html Publishes lists of physical characteristics for the Northern Fulmar including a light morph and grey morph. See pictures and get facts on its life history. |
| New England Seabirds -
Northern Fulmar http://www.neseabirds.com/fulmar.htm Digest this entry for the Fulmarus glacialis that gives info on breeds in the Northern Hemisphere, breeding habits, and describes how to see this species. |
| Columbia University - Northern
Fulmar http://rainbow.ldeo.columbia.edu/edf/info/dist/fulmar/ Specialist Climate Modelling Group at Columbia University presents a distribution map of the Northern Fulmar that shows its migratory range and breeding grounds. |
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Birds on sea-cliffs & islands in the UK
