fulmar

American  

[fool-mer] / ˈfʊl mər /

noun

1. any of certain oceanic birds of the petrel family, especially Fulmarus glacialis, a gull-like Arctic species.

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fulmar British  

/ ˈfʊlmə /

noun

1. any heavily built short-tailed oceanic bird of the genus Fulmarus and related genera, of polar regions: family Procellariidae , order Procellariiformes (petrels)

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Etymology

Origin of fulmar

First recorded in 1690–1700; originally dialect (Hebrides), from Icelandic fūl “stinking, foul” + mār “gull” (with reference to its stench); foul

Example Sentences

“The smell hit me first,” said Bogard, describing the musty, basement-like odor of northern fulmars scattered along the beach that mid-December morning.

From Los Angeles Times

The culprit was avian cholera, a disease not previously detected in these high latitudes, and one that elsewhere rarely fells seabirds such as thick-billed murres, auklets, common eiders, northern fulmars and gulls.

From Los Angeles Times

In 1987, he started investigating the diet of the fulmar, a bird that can live for more than 40 years in the wild.

From New York Times

He’d visit the birds’ nests and watch almost 5,000 pairs of kittiwakes, taking photographs of them flying around among the fulmars, cormorants and herring gulls.

From The Guardian

“Plastic ingestion in these fulmars is among the highest recorded globally,” researchers asserted in 2017.

From Salon