Species: Fulmarus glacialis
Northern Fulmar
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Classification
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Craniata
Class
Aves
Order
Procellariiformes
Family
Procellariidae
Genus
Fulmarus
NatureServe
Classification
Other Global Common Names
Fulmar Norteño - Fulmar boréal
Informal Taxonomy
Animals, Vertebrates - Birds - Other Birds
Formal Taxonomy
Animalia - Craniata - Aves - Procellariiformes - Procellariidae - Fulmarus - Apparently constitutes a superspecies with F. GLACIALOIDES (AOU 1998).
Ecology and Life History
Migration
false - false - true
Non-migrant
false
Locally Migrant
false
Food Comments
Feeds on fishes, mollusks, crustaceans. Surface feeder; floats or swims on surface of water while eating; may dive below surface. Follows fishing ships. Drinks seawater.
Reproduction Comments
Egg laying occurs May-July (early June in western Gulf of Alaska). Clutch size: 1. One brood per year. Incubation by both parents, in turn, lasts 46-51 days. Young leave nest at 49-58 days. First breeds at 7-9 years. Nesting colony may include up to 200,000 birds.
Ecology Comments
Hunted for flesh and feathers. Nests raided by arctic weasels, glaucous and herring gulls. See Hatch (1987) for demographic data from Alaska.
Length
48
Weight
609
Conservation Status
NatureServe Global Status Rank
G5
Global Status Last Reviewed
1996-11-20
Global Status Last Changed
1996-11-20
Other Status
LC - Least concern
Distribution
Conservation Status Map
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Global Range
H - >2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles) - H - Discontinuously circumpolar, breeding in the north Atlantic, north Pacific, and Arctic oceans. In North America breeds in colonies along the coasts of Alaska, the Canadian Arctic, and in Greenland (Godfrey 1966). Highly pelagic. Two large colonies in the Bering Sea include light-plumaged birds almost exclusively, whereas dark-plumaged birds dominate colonies in the Gulf of Alaska and Aleutian Islands.
Global Range Code
H
Global Range Description
>2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles)