#0827 · 🐦 birds

Northern Fulmar

🇳🇱 Noordse Stormvogel ·Fulmarus glacialis

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Mark Rosenstein · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Michael Long · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Jonny Andrews · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © lrbobay · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Gonzalo Mucientes Sandoval · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Andrew P. Aldrich · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Paweł Pieluszyński · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Tomasz Gustyn · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © IanLJones · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The northern fulmar ( Fulmarus glacialis ), fulmar , or Arctic fulmar is a highly abundant sea bird found primarily in subarctic regions of the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans. There has been one confirmed sighting in the Southern Hemisphere, with a single bird seen south of New Zealand. Fulmars come in one of two color morphs: a light one, with white head and body and gray wings and tail, and a dark one which is uniformly gray....

base stats

NL sightings 15iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 16,096iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).