Observations of Foraging Northern Fulmars (Fulmarus Glacialis) in the Canadian High Arctic

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Hobson, Keith A., Welch, Harold E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1992
• Subjects: Animal behaviour; Animal food; Arctic cod; Fulmars; Copepoda; Admiralty Inlet; Nunavut; Barrow Strait; Lancaster Sound; Arctic; Fulmar; Northwest Territories; Resolute Bay; Boreogadus saida; Fulmarus glacialis; Northern Fulmar; Territoires du Nord-Ouest; Copepods
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64442

We summarize observations of foraging northern fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis) in the Barrow Strait-Lancaster Sound region of the Northwest Territories from June to September 1984-90 and in Admiralty Inlet, N.W.T., in July 1989. In each year, fulmars scavenged hunter-killed marine mammal remains in the...