Fulmar, the Glossary
The fulmars are tubenosed seabirds of the family Procellariidae.[1]
Table of Contents
65 relations: A History of British Birds, Atlantic Ocean, Bear Island (Svalbard), Bird, Bird egg, British Isles, Brittany, Burrow, California, Carl Linnaeus, Carrion, Charles Lucien Bonaparte, Cliff, Crustacean, Eggs as food, Family (biology), Faxaflói, Fish, Fossil, George Robert Gray, George Washington Wilson, Gull, Iceland, International Union for Conservation of Nature, James Fisher (naturalist), James Francis Stephens, John Cassin, Least-concern species, Marine worm, Miocene, Neontology, Nocturnality, Normandy, Northern fulmar, Nostril, Ocean, Old Norse, Order (biology), Pacific Ocean, Peat, Pelagic zone, Petrel, Picardy, Plumage, Procellariidae, Procellariiformes, Proventriculus, Runde, Salt gland, Seabird, ... Expand index (15 more) »
- Fulmarus
- Seabirds
A History of British Birds
A History of British Birds is a natural history book by Thomas Bewick, published in two volumes.
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Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.
Bear Island (Svalbard)
Bear Island (Bjørnøya) is the southernmost island of the Norwegian Svalbard archipelago.
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Bird
Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.
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Bird egg
Bird eggs are laid by the females and range in quantity from one (as in condors) to up to seventeen (the grey partridge).
British Isles
The British Isles are a group of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-western coast of continental Europe, consisting of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man, the Inner and Outer Hebrides, the Northern Isles (Orkney and Shetland), and over six thousand smaller islands.
Brittany
Brittany (Bretagne,; Breizh,; Gallo: Bertaèyn or Bertègn) is a peninsula, historical country and cultural area in the north-west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica during the period of Roman occupation.
Burrow
An eastern chipmunk at the entrance of its burrow A burrow is a hole or tunnel excavated into the ground by an animal to construct a space suitable for habitation or temporary refuge, or as a byproduct of locomotion.
California
California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,Blunt (2004), p. 171.
Carrion
Carrion, also known as a carcass, is the decaying flesh of dead animals.
Charles Lucien Bonaparte
Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte, 2nd Prince of Canino and Musignano (24 May 1803 – 29 July 1857) was a French naturalist and ornithologist, and a nephew of Napoleon.
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Cliff
In geography and geology, a cliff is an area of rock which has a general angle defined by the vertical, or nearly vertical.
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Crustacean
Crustaceans are a group of arthropods that are a part of the subphylum Crustacea, a large, diverse group of mainly aquatic arthropods including decapods (shrimps, prawns, crabs, lobsters and crayfish), seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, opossum shrimps, amphipods and mantis shrimp.
Eggs as food
Humans and their hominid relatives have consumed eggs for millions of years.
Family (biology)
Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.
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Faxaflói
Faxaflói, sometimes Faxa Bay, Faxe Bay or Faxi Bay, is a bay in southwest Iceland, between the peninsulas of Snæfellsnes and Reykjanes.
Fish
A fish (fish or fishes) is an aquatic, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fins and a hard skull, but lacking limbs with digits.
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Fossil
A fossil (from Classical Latin) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.
George Robert Gray
George Robert Gray (8 July 1808 – 6 May 1872) was an English zoologist and author, and head of the ornithological section of the British Museum, now the Natural History Museum, in London for forty-one years.
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George Washington Wilson
George Washington Wilson (7 February 1823 – 9 March 1893) was a pioneering Scottish photographer.
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Gull
Gulls, or colloquially seagulls, are seabirds of the family Laridae in the suborder Lari. Fulmar and Gull are seabirds.
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Iceland
Iceland (Ísland) is a Nordic island country between the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe.
International Union for Conservation of Nature
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.
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James Fisher (naturalist)
James Maxwell McConnell Fisher (3 September 1912 – 25 September 1970) was a British author, editor, broadcaster, naturalist and ornithologist.
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James Francis Stephens
James Francis Stephens (16 September 1792 – 22 December 1852) was an English entomologist and naturalist.
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John Cassin
John Cassin (September 6, 1813 – January 10, 1869) was an American ornithologist from Pennsylvania.
Least-concern species
A least-concern species is a species that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as evaluated as not being a focus of wildlife conservation because the specific species is still plentiful in the wild.
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Marine worm
Any worm that lives in a marine environment is considered a water worm. Marine worms are found in several different phyla, including the Platyhelminthes, Nematoda, Annelida (segmented worms), Chaetognatha, Hemichordata, and Phoronida.
Miocene
The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).
Neontology
Neontology is a part of biology that, in contrast to paleontology, deals with living (or, more generally, recent) organisms.
Nocturnality
Nocturnality is a behavior in some non-human animals characterized by being active during the night and sleeping during the day.
Normandy
Normandy (Normandie; Normaundie, Nouormandie; from Old French Normanz, plural of Normant, originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is a geographical and cultural region in northwestern Europe, roughly coextensive with the historical Duchy of Normandy.
Northern fulmar
The northern fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis), fulmar, or Arctic fulmar is a highly abundant seabird found primarily in subarctic regions of the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans. Fulmar and northern fulmar are Fulmarus.
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Nostril
A nostril (or naris,: nares) is either of the two orifices of the nose.
Ocean
The ocean is the body of salt water that covers approx.
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Old Norse
Old Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian is a stage of development of North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages.
Order (biology)
Order (ordo) is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.
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Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.
Peat
Peat is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation or organic matter.
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Pelagic zone
The pelagic zone consists of the water column of the open ocean and can be further divided into regions by depth.
Petrel
Petrels are tube-nosed seabirds in the bird order Procellariiformes. Fulmar and Petrel are seabirds.
Picardy
Picardy (Picard and Picardie) is a historical territory and a former administrative region of France.
Plumage
Plumage is a layer of feathers that covers a bird and the pattern, colour, and arrangement of those feathers.
Procellariidae
The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the diving petrels, the prions, and the shearwaters. Fulmar and Procellariidae are seabirds.
Procellariiformes
Procellariiformes is an order of seabirds that comprises four families: the albatrosses, the petrels and shearwaters, and two families of storm petrels. Fulmar and Procellariiformes are seabirds.
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Proventriculus
The proventriculus is part of the digestive system of birds.
Runde
Runde is an island in the municipality of Herøy in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway.
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Salt gland
The salt gland is an organ for excreting excess salts.
Seabird
Seabirds (also known as marine birds) are birds that are adapted to life within the marine environment. Fulmar and Seabird are seabirds.
Shrimp
A shrimp (shrimp (US) or shrimps (UK) is a crustacean (a form of shellfish) with an elongated body and a primarily swimming mode of locomotion – typically belonging to the Caridea or Dendrobranchiata of the order Decapoda, although some crustaceans outside of this order are also referred to as "shrimp".
Southern fulmar
The southern fulmar (Fulmarus glacialoides) is a seabird of the Southern Hemisphere. Fulmar and southern fulmar are Fulmarus.
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Southern Ocean
The Southern Ocean, also known as the Antarctic Ocean, comprises the southernmost waters of the world ocean, generally taken to be south of 60° S latitude and encircling Antarctica.
Species
A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.
Squid
A squid (squid) is a mollusc with an elongated soft body, large eyes, eight arms, and two tentacles in the orders Myopsida, Oegopsida, and Bathyteuthida.
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St Kilda, Scotland
St Kilda (Hiort) is a remote archipelago situated west-northwest of North Uist in the North Atlantic Ocean.
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Stomach oil
Stomach oil is the light oil composed of neutral dietary lipids found in the proventriculus (fore-gut) of birds in the order Procellariiformes.
Temblor Formation
The Temblor Formation is a geologic formation in California.
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Thomas Bewick
Thomas Bewick (c. 11 August 1753 – 8 November 1828) was an English wood-engraver and natural history author.
Thomas Pennant
Thomas Pennant (16 December 1798) was a Welsh naturalist, traveller, writer and antiquarian.
Triglyceride
A triglyceride (from tri- and glyceride; also TG, triacylglycerol, TAG, or triacylglyceride) is an ester derived from glycerol and three fatty acids.
Type species
In zoological nomenclature, a type species (species typica) is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen (or specimens).
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
Wax ester
A wax ester (WE) is an ester of a fatty acid and a fatty alcohol.
Wing
A wing is a type of fin that produces lift while moving through air or some other fluid.
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See also
Fulmarus
- Fulmar
- Northern fulmar
- Southern fulmar
Seabirds
- Albatross
- Albatrosses
- Auks
- Austral storm petrel
- Australasian Seabird Group
- Charadriiformes
- Cormorant
- Cormorants
- Frigatebird
- Fulmar
- Fulmarine petrel
- Gannet
- Gannets
- Gull
- Gulls
- Introduced mammals on seabird breeding islands
- Laridae
- Muttonbirding
- Nambashag
- Northern storm petrel
- Pacific Seabird Group
- Pelecaniformes
- Pelicans
- Penguin
- Penguins
- Petrel
- Petrels
- Phaethontiformes
- Procellariidae
- Procellariiformes
- Prophaethontidae
- SANCCOB
- Seabird
- Seabird breeding behavior
- Seawatching
- Shearwater
- Shearwaters
- Skua
- Storm-petrels
- Suliformes
- Terns
- The Handbook of Australian Sea-birds
- Tropicbird
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulmar
Also known as Fulmars, Fulmarus, Northern Fulmars.
, Shrimp, Southern fulmar, Southern Ocean, Species, Squid, St Kilda, Scotland, Stomach oil, Temblor Formation, Thomas Bewick, Thomas Pennant, Triglyceride, Type species, United Kingdom, Wax ester, Wing.