Spatial variation in the feeding ecology, foraging ranges, and breeding energetics of northern fulmars in the north-east Atlantic Ocean

• Published in: ICES Journal of Marine Science
• Main Authors: Hamer, K. C., Thompson, D. R., Gray, C. M.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 1997
• Subjects: Articles; Fulmar; Fulmarus glacialis; North Atlantic; North East Atlantic
• Online Access: http://icesjms.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/54/4/645; https://doi.org/10.1006/jmsc.1997.0242

Northern fulmars ( Fulmarus glacialis ) are one of the most abundant birds in the North Atlantic Ocean and the two largest fulmar colonies in the UK are at St Kilda, Outer Hebrides and Foula, Shetland. These colonies are about 450 km apart and surrounded by waters that differ greatly in terms of pot...