Sentences with word «fulmar»

Recent findings suggest that 95 per cent of northern fulmars in the North Sea had plastic in their stomachs and that 58 percent contained levels above the 0.1 g identified as an OSPAR Commission environmental quality objective.

Seabirds including fulmars, gannets, kittiwakes and auks including everybody's favourite, the puffin, have made the cliffs at Troup Head their home for the last 6 months.

A recent study from the nearby Isfjorden fjord on Spitsbergen showed that 88 percent of the northern fulmars examined had swallowed plastic.

Pellets are often found in the stomach content of seabirds like fulmars, which feed from the surface of the sea.

First up for tagging is an angry northern fulmar, spitting a foul - smelling orange glob of stomach oil at British researchers Kane Brides and Lloyd Park.

Birds remaining in the colony include fulmars, herring gulls and for a few more weeks, gannets, for which the area is becoming renowned.

Gulls, terns and cormorants, puffins, pelicans and penguins, gannets, fulmars and auks are all part of this 350 species - strong group, made up of mostly ancient families.

The area is a nesting nexus for a variety of species, and breeding looks dismal again this year for kittiwakes, fulmars, puffins, and murres as well as terns.

What is clear is that northern fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis) are consuming plastics.

With respect to the Norwegian coast and specifically the Skagerrak, 50 per cent of northern fulmars that were studied contained levels above 0.1 g.

The birds, called northern fulmars, feed exclusively at sea.

Among these cliffs are some of the largest breeding seabird colonies in Europe, including puffins, guillemots, razorbills, kittiwakes, puffins, fulmars, shags and gannets.

Albatrosses, petrels, shearwaters, and fulmars are killed when they become attracted to the bait as the lines are set, and either swallow the hooks or become snagged and pulled under the sea to drown.»