Stocky gull-like seabird with a thick neck and a bull-headed appearance. Flies like a tank with stiff wingbeats. Varies in color from dark gray to nearly white. Note gray rump and tail on light morph birds.
Stocky gull-like seabird that flies on outstretched stiff wings. This bird is darker gray than other light morph birds in the Atlantic.
Like many seabird species of the high arctic, Northern Fulmars are highly opportunistic feeders. They often consume discarded fish from commercial fishing vessels, squid, crustaceans, and carrion.
Stocky gull-like seabird with a thick neck, bull-headed appearance, and a pale stubby bill. Varies in color from dark gray to nearly white.
This light morph bird is white overall with gray wings and darker gray wingtips. Often rests on the water with other Northern Fulmars.
Breeds on steep sea cliffs. Spends the winters at sea from ice-covered northern waters to temperate zones.
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Looks superficially like a gull. A heavyset, medium-sized seabird with a short neck, stout body, large head, and long wings. The bill is stout and hooked, with two nasal tubes on the top edge.
Larger than a Ring-billed Gull, smaller than a Herring Gull.
crow-sizedOrnithologists recognize two or three subspecies, the small, short- and thick-billed glacialis of the Arctic Ocean, in which the darker morphs predominate; the large-billed auduboni of the Atlantic, in which there are no dark morphs; and the slender-billed rodgersii of the Pacific, which is intermediate in size and has a great variety of color morphs.
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