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- noun Plural form of
fulmar .
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Examples
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Likewise, 10,000 -- or for that matter 200,000 -- fulmars or common murres can die in the Gulf of Alaska almost unnoticed.
AlaskaDispatch.com: Massive Bird, Fish Kills in Alaska -- No One Noticed AlaskaDispatch.com 2011
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Witnessed only by a few gannets and sooty fulmars, Sergeant Brian Peel, Lieutenant Commander Desmond Scott, Corporal Anthony Fraser and the naturalist James Fisher mixed buckets of cement and erected a flagpole made from old propeller shafts.
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Likewise, 10,000 -- or for that matter 200,000 -- fulmars or common murres can die in the Gulf of Alaska almost unnoticed.
AlaskaDispatch.com: Massive Bird, Fish Kills in Alaska -- No One Noticed AlaskaDispatch.com 2011
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Albatross, fulmars, shearwaters and petrels mistake floating plastics for food, and many individuals of these species are affected; in fact, 44% of all seabird species are known to ingest plastic.
Lisa Kaas Boyle: 25-Foot Turtle Stumps for Plastic Bag Ban 2010
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Above him, their nesting grounds disturbed by the hikers, gray fulmars and red-billed choughs rode the wind in great wide circles.
FALSE MERMAID ERIN HART 2010
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Above him, their nesting grounds disturbed by the hikers, gray fulmars and red-billed choughs rode the wind in great wide circles.
FALSE MERMAID ERIN HART 2010
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Effects of climate variability on the temporal population dynamics of southern fulmars.
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I had loved the resident wrens and the starlings, the seabirds, the gannets and fulmars, but now the island came to life in a different way, as earth, not sea; not sky, but earth, our place that land birds need, that we share with them, where they stop and rest and live among us for a while.
A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009
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Nearer to me, fulmars like miniature albatrosses ack ack as they return to their nests, and stout black-and-white puffins waddle along the cliff edge with matronly growls.
A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009
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The two dominant target species are northern fulmars and puffins.
Management and conservation of marine mammals and seabirds in the Arctic 2009
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