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
Fulmar in flight Moher
Fulmarus glacialis auduboni at Heligoland, Germany
Fulmarus glacialis rodgersii off Morro Bay, California
Procellariiformes is an order of seabirds that comprises four families; the albatrosses, the petrels and shearwaters, and two families of storm petrels. Formerly called Tubinares and still called tube
Northern fulmar
…grey; intermediate birds are common. Though similar in appearance to gulls, fulmars are in fact members of the family Procellariidae, which includes petrels and shearwaters. The northern fulmar and its sister species, the southern fulmar (Fulmarus glacialoides), are the only extant members of the genus…
Thalassarche bulleri in flight 3 SE Tasmania
Pterodroma macroptera from Godman's Monograph of the Petrels, 1907–1910
The southern royal albatross is one of the largest of the Procellariiformes.
A white-faced storm petrel moves across the water's surface in a series of bounding leaps.