Fulmar

Fulmarus glacialis (Linnaeus, 1761)

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The Fulmar, an inhabitant of rocky northern shores, occupies a disjunctive range. The Atlantic Fulmar (F. g. glacialis) breeds to the east including Uyedineniya Island (83° E) (Pleske 1928), while the Pacific subspecies (L g. rodgersii) breeds on the islands of the Bering Sea. Migrants of the Atlantic subspecies occur occasionally in some years in the Kara Sea near the shores of northwestern Taymyr and the Severnaya Zemlya Archipelago. The Russian Polar Expedition headed by E. Toll observed the species between September 19 and 24, 1901, further east in the Laptev Sea during the passage from Taymyr to Bennet Island (Birulya 1907).

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