Southern Fulmar (Fulmarus glacialoides)

Order: Procellariformes | Family: Procellariidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern

southern_fulmar
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Coast of South Africa

southern_fulmar
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Coast of South Africa

southern_fulmar
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Coast of South Africa

southern_fulmar
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Coast of South Africa

Identification & Behavior: ~19 cm (7.4 in). The Southern Fulmar has a white head, neck, and rest of the underparts. The back is bluish-gray. The tail is square. The bill is stubby, with a bluish culmen, pinkish mandible, and a black tip. The primary flight feathers are blackish but vary with apparently, molt stage and age. It resembles a gull species but is distinguished by a stubby bill, bull-necked jizz, and distinctive flap-and-glide flight pattern. See, Swallow-tailed Gull, and Black-legged Kittiwake.

Status: The Southern Fulmar is a rare non-breeding visitor to pelagic waters. It also occurs in, Ec, Br, and Ch.

Name in Spanish: Petrel Plateado.

Sub-species: Southern Fulmar (Fulmarus glacialoides), (A. Smith), 1840.

Meaning of Name: Fulmarus: Old Norse name Fúlmár foul-mew or -gull, for the Atlantic Fulmar. glacialoides: Specific name Procellaria glacialis Linnaeus, 1761 and Gr oides= resembling a (Fulmarus).

See more of the Family Procellariidae  peru aves

Distribution Mapsouthern fulmar
Voice
Generally silent at sea.

References:

    • Species range based on: Schulenberg, T. S., D. F. Stotz, and L. Rico. 2006. Distribution maps of the birds of Peru, version 1.0. Environment, Culture & Conservation (ECCo). The Field Museum.  http://fm2.fieldmuseum.org/uw_test/birdsofperu on 03/01/2017.