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Colloquial / Alternate names: Status in Europe:Common Where and When:Breeds from Franz Josef Land south to Brittany in the eastern Atlantic and in Greenland and the eastern Canadian Arctic - There are four small colonies in eastern Newfoundland and southeastern Labrador -Until recently the fulmar was virtually confined to the Arctic and was rare in temperate waters on either side of the Atlantic - However a massive expansion in range began in Iceland in the eighteenth century reaching northern Scotland by the 1880s and Brittany and Norway by the late 1950s Habitat: Sea Notes: The Northern Fulmar is similar to a medium-sized gull in appearance but its heavier head and neck straight wings and gliding flight readily distinguish it in the field - Usually white everywhere except on back rump and upper side of wings and tail which are grayish brown upper wings with pale patch at base of primaries - large dark eye - bill stout yellow and hooked More Photos: Northern Fulmar
Northern Fulmar
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