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The fulmars are tube-nosed seabirds in the family Procellariidae. The family includes two extant species, and two extinct fossil species from the Miocene.
Fulmarus glacialis on cliff
A northern fulmar in flight
A tail-piece wood engraving in Thomas Bewick's A History of British Birds, Volume 2: Water Birds, 1804
The catch of fulmars on St Kilda; George Washington Wilson, August 1884
Northern fulmar
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The northern fulmar, Arctic fulmar, or simply fulmar is an abundant seabird found primarily in subarctic regions of the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans. There has been one confirmed sighting i
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…foul-mew" or "foul-gull" because of the birds' habit of ejecting a foul-smelling oil. The type species was designated by George Gray in 1855 as the northern fulmar. As members of Procellaridae and then the order Procellariiformes, they share certain traits. First, they have nasal passages that attach to the upper…
Fulmar in flight Moher
Fulmarus glacialis auduboni at Heligoland, Germany
Fulmarus glacialis rodgersii off Morro Bay, California
Fulmar egg