How To Use Fulmar In A Sentence
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The grassy slopes were grazed by apparently fearless and footsure sheep, and in parts the sheer cliffs were occupied by seabirds - fulmars, kittiwakes and auks.
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In coastal areas, for example, puffins, rock doves, fulmars and guillemots are the most favoured items of diet.
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The sea sighs at the feet of the cliffs where fulmars and kittiwakes are sitting hopefully on nests precariously wedged into the narrowest of crevices.
Times, Sunday Times
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St Kilda is home to the world's largest colony of gannets and the largest colonies of fulmars and puffins in Britain.
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You may see stiff-winged fulmars gliding effortlessly, or hear them cackling as they sit precariously on ledges incubating single eggs.
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At the far northern end of the beach we come across a dead fulmar and marvel at the size and ferocity of its beak.
Wildwood
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Hundreds of gulls, cormorants and fulmars nest in the cliffs and in burrows on cliff-edges.
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It's been estimated that a million birds nest here, including puffins, razorbills, common and Brünnich's guillemots, fulmars and kittiwakes.
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The Northern Fulmar varies in color from mostly white, to gray and white like many gulls, to an overall gray-brown, with every possible shade in between.
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Lagged effects of ocean climate change on fulmar population dynamics.
Effects of climate change on the biodiversity of the Arctic
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Bempton is the largest seabird colony in England and is home to a breathtaking array of gannets, guillemots, razorbills, kittiwakes, fulmars - and puffins.
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SEAFURY Aircraft were not on line till much much later, SEAFIRES, which were the navalised version of the Spitfire were but not Till 1942, which means the poxy arsed Fulmar Aircraft were on deck of the British carriers at the time.
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Other important breeding colonies of seabirds - such as shag, razorbill and fulmar - are also in freefall.
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This approximately black-bird-sized species of the tubenose family, which also includes the albatrosses, fulmarine petrels and storm petrels, breeds from November to February on the Falkland Islands and neighbouring island groups in the South Atlantic.
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There's always the chance of a minke whale, too, while terns, fulmars, guillemots, puffins and shearwaters come as standard.
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There's always the chance of a minke whale, too, while terns, fulmars, guillemots, puffins and shearwaters come as standard.
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Many of the bird species live on the water all year, only coming onto land to breed, such as the northern fulmar, greater shearwater, dovekie, common murre, and thickbilled murre.
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The fulmars gabbling at the cliffs sounded like balloons being rubbed.
Times, Sunday Times
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The razorbill, fulmar, guillemot, kittiwake, chough and short-eared owl will all make your acquaintance on this magical island.
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Adélie penguins, Cape petrels, southern fulmars, and six other species were observed for the study.
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When nesting on a rock ledge, the fulmars do not build a nest, but when they nest on a bank or slope, they make a shallow scrape, occasionally lined with small stones.
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The fulmars gabbling at the cliffs sounded like balloons being rubbed.
Times, Sunday Times
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Bempton is the largest seabird colony in England and is home to a breathtaking array of gannets, guillemots, razorbills, kittiwakes, fulmars - and puffins.
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Additional immigrants from the north during the winter include many birds, such as thick-billed murre, northern fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis), and little auk.
Fisheries and aquaculture in the Newfoundland and Labrador Seas, Northeastern Canada
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You may see stiff-winged fulmars gliding effortlessly, or hear them cackling as they sit precariously on ledges incubating single eggs.
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Great skuas, gannets, fulmars, blackheaded gulls and a few guillemots played like children.
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There is, however, strong evidence to show that the present great Fulmar spread is not of St Kildan birds, but a population overspill from Iceland.
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From latitudes 60 to 63 degrees we saw a fair number of birds: southern fulmars, whale birds, molly-mawks, sooty albatrosses, and occasionally
South with Scott
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To the distinguished ornithologist and broadcaster James Fisher, the fulmar was the nearest thing we had to an albatross in the North Atlantic.
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The northwards path along a rocky coastline takes you to Dunstanburgh Castle, a romantic ruin where kittiwakes, cormorants and fulmars nest on whinstone cliffs.
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The eggs of the fulmar are large, white and beautiful.
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Northern fulmars are a keystone Arctic species, providing vital nutrients to an otherwise desolate landscape.
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Fulmars, uncharacteristically quiet today, sit on their ledges among more splashes of bright pink, cascades of yellow bird's-foot trefoil and the last of the blue spring squill.
Country diary: Shetland
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Carried by the gentle swell, the boat sails to the foot of cathedrals of black rock - like some kind of nautical Macchu Picchu - teeming with fulmars, kittiwakes and puffins.
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Fulmarus glacialis, a cliff-dwelling, gull-like bird of northern seas and coasts; it belongs to a group of seabirds commonly known as petrels and shearwaters.
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Researchers are not concerned that the species is in trouble as fulmars are one of the world's most numerous seabirds.
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These steep pinnacles are now part of the RSPB bird sanctuary populated by the largest Arctic tern colony in north-west Europe, and home to numerous puffins, kittiwakes, shags and fulmars.
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It is generally accepted that the Family Procellariidae can be split into four broad groupings; the fulmars (Fulmarus), the gadfly-petrels (Pterodroma), the prions (Pachyptila) and the shearwaters (Puffinus).
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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.
A Year on the Wing
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You may see stiff-winged fulmars gliding effortlessly, or hear them cackling as they sit precariously on ledges incubating single eggs.
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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.
A Year on the Wing
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These steep pinnacles are now part of the RSPB bird sanctuary populated by the largest Arctic tern colony in north-west Europe, and home to numerous puffins, kittiwakes, shags and fulmars.
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Pinions outstretched, half hopping and half flying, the fulmar leaped and clambered over the rocks until it reached a nearly level space of smooth stone, some two lengths in breath and width.
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The northwards path along a rocky coastline takes you to the castle, a romantic ruin where kittiwakes, cormorants and fulmars nest on whinstone cliffs.
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Bempton is the largest seabird colony in England and is home to a breathtaking array of gannets, guillemots, razorbills, kittiwakes, fulmars - and puffins.
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Additionally, seabirds including Northern fulmars and Cassin's auklet have been injured or killed.
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When we looked upwards again, we were amazed to see all three Fulmars still flying but firing emergency landing signals.
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When nesting on a rock ledge, the fulmars do not build a nest, but when they nest on a bank or slope, they make a shallow scrape, occasionally lined with small stones.
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There's always the chance of a minke whale, too, while terns, fulmars, guillemots, puffins and shearwaters come as standard.
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Great skuas, gannets, fulmars, blackheaded gulls and a few guillemots played like children.
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In coastal areas, for example, puffins, rock doves, fulmars and guillemots are most favoured items of diet.
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In spring and summer these become home to thousands of sea birds like guillemots, razorbills, puffins, fulmars and kittiwakes.
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It is a sheer basalt rock cliff on which thousands of razor bills, guillemots, kittiwakes, shags and fulmars nest.
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In addition, the Antarctic fulmar breeds on nearby islands and is regularly observed.
South Orkney Islands
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Gannets, fulmars and kittiwakes all constitute a hazard to a frisky live-bait, as do blue sharks.
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Arctic terns, arctic skuas, guillemots, kittiewakes and fulmars are all suffering, with numbers drastically down, while all the large arctic tern colonies in the North Isles have already failed.
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Large flocks of northern fulmar Fulmarus glacialis and gulls feed among the grounded icebergs.
Ilulissat Icefjord, Denmark-Greenland
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Fulmars, uncharacteristically quiet today, sit on their ledges among more splashes of bright pink, cascades of yellow bird's-foot trefoil and the last of the blue spring squill.
Country diary: Shetland
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Some species characteristic of Marielandia are: southern fulmar (Fulmaras glacialoides); southern giant fulmar (Macronectes giganteus); cape pigeon (Daption capense); snow petrel (Pagodroma nivea);
Antarctic Peninsula
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In spring and summer these become home to thousands of sea birds like guillemots, razorbills, puffins, fulmars and kittiwakes.
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Then we reach the high black cliffs where a colony of fulmars glides; one of them follows us, flapping its wings for a spell, then gliding towards the sea, then rising again.
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The sun-warmed sound of a skylark pours out of a hazy blue sky, contrasting oddly with the wild, skirling squawks of the kittiwakes and fulmars swooping and wheeling below the cliffs.
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The northwards path along a rocky coastline takes you to Dunstanburgh Castle, a romantic ruin where kittiwakes, cormorants and fulmars nest on whinstone cliffs.
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The only wild animal is the mouse; but the islets swarm with myriads of sea-fowl-fulmar, puffins, guillemots, razor-bills, and solan geese, which annually supply the islanders with great part of their wealth.
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The razorbill, fulmar, guillemot, kittiwake, chough and short-eared owl will all make your acquaintance on this magical island.
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They include tundra swans, arctic terns, northern fulmars, black guillemot, and various loons, ducks, geese, gulls, jaegers, and alcids.
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Lots of fulmars and gulls, even a bonxie (not sure how you spell that) although it did not hang around for long.
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Sandy Neck, Barnstable, and First Encounter Beach, Eastham, are Cape places to observe shearwaters, jaegers, phalaropes, ducks, gannets and for a few lucky sentinels, an occasional northern fulmar.
