northern fulmar

The Northern Fulmar starts breeding at between six and twelve years old.

A sizeable population of Northern Fulmar are found here.

There is a sizeable population of Northern Fulmar.

These include the northern fulmar, kittiwake, the little auk and the thick billed murre.

Cape Vera, at the eastern end of the peninsula, is a breeding site for the Northern Fulmar.

Cape Searle is home to the largest Northern Fulmar colony in Canada.

Notable bird species include Northern Fulmar and Common Eider.

Glaucous Gull and Northern Fulmar frequent its cliffs and shoreline.

The Northern Fulmar consists of three sub-species:

Cape Vera, another IBA site, is also noted for its Northern Fulmar population.

Life expectancy of Procellariidae is between 15 and 20 years; although, the oldest recorded member was a Northern Fulmar that was over 50 years.

Cape Liddon, on its western headland, has significant populations of Black Guillemot and Northern Fulmar.

Among the most extreme examples known of this tendency was the fidelity of a ringed Northern Fulmar that returned to the same nest site for 25 years.

This can have other impacts; for example, the spread of the Northern Fulmar through the United Kingdom is attributed in part to the availability of discards.

The Northern Fulmar and its sister, the Southern Fulmar, are the extant members of the genus Fulmarus.

More recently procellariids have been hunted for food by Europeans, particularly the Northern Fulmar in Europe, and various species by eskimos, and sailors around the world.

Inishvickillane holds important seabird colonies, being especially notable for Northern Fulmar, European Storm-petrel and Atlantic Puffin.

The most common are Little Auk, Northern Fulmar, Thick-billed Murre and Black-legged Kittiwake.

They are predominantly found in the Southern Ocean with one species, the Northern Fulmar, ranging in the North Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.

Along with the Northern Fulmar, F. glacialis, it belongs to the fulmar genus Fulmarus in the family Procellariidae, the true petrels.

It originally had the binomial name Procellaria glacialoides but was subsequently moved to the genus Fulmarus with its closest relative, the Northern Fulmar, F. glacialis.

Fulmar, one of two closely related seabirds, the Northern Fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis), or the Southern Fulmar (F. glacialoides)

Cape Liddon is an Important Bird Area (IBA) notable for its Black Guillemot and Northern Fulmar populations.

The Northern Fulmar was first described as Fulmarus glacialis by Carl Linnaeus, in 1761, based on a specimen from within the Arctic Circle, on Spitsbergen.

In the southern hemisphere, the name mollymawk is still well established in some areas, which is a corrupted form of malle-mugge, an old Dutch name for the Northern Fulmar.