Likewise, 10,000 -- or for that matter 200,000 -- fulmars or common murres can die in the Gulf of Alaska almost unnoticed. ❋ AlaskaDispatch.com (2011)
Witnessed only by a few gannets and sooty fulmars, Sergeant Brian Peel, Lieutenant Commander Desmond Scott, Corporal Anthony Fraser and the naturalist James Fisher mixed buckets of cement and erected a flagpole made from old propeller shafts. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Above him, their nesting grounds disturbed by the hikers, gray fulmars and red-billed choughs rode the wind in great wide circles. ❋ ERIN HART (2010)
Albatross, fulmars, shearwaters and petrels mistake floating plastics for food, and many individuals of these species are affected; in fact, 44% of all seabird species are known to ingest plastic. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Effects of climate variability on the temporal population dynamics of southern fulmars. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I had loved the resident wrens and the starlings, the seabirds, the gannets and fulmars, but now the island came to life in a different way, as earth, not sea; not sky, but earth, our place that land birds need, that we share with them, where they stop and rest and live among us for a while. ❋ TIM DEE (2009)
Nearer to me, fulmars like miniature albatrosses ack ack as they return to their nests, and stout black-and-white puffins waddle along the cliff edge with matronly growls. ❋ TIM DEE (2009)
I had the task of launching into the sky all the seabirds from all the cliffs of Shetland: the shags and razorbills from the boulders at the sea edge, the guillemots and kittiwakes from the open faces of rock, the gannets from their shantytowns along ridge backs and fault lines, the fulmars from the tussocked neuks below the cliff lip, and the puffins from their burrows in the turf on the top. ❋ TIM DEE (2009)
I watched oceangoing fulmars fall asleep on it, bobbing in its lightest of swells, their smoky-gray heads swiveled behind them and tucked beneath a wing. ❋ TIM DEE (2009)
The two dominant target species are northern fulmars and puffins. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The Semidi Islands have 500,000 fulmars and 650,000 murres. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Sometimes they did all this in pairs, as did the shearwaters and fulmars, in perfect, terrifying sync—the terror of sheer, heedless, inhuman beauty. ❋ Peter Heller (2007)
From the deck it was a different world: an innocent, seven-foot swell, light fog, fulmars and petrels circling the ship. ❋ Peter Heller (2007)
Antarctic, snow and stormy petrels, fulmars, white – rumped terns, and adelies were around us. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Numerous whales and killers were blowing between the floes, and Cape pigeons, petrels, and fulmars were circling round our berg. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Additionally, seabirds including Northern fulmars and Cassin's auklet have been injured or killed. ❋ Unknown (2005)
