fulmar petrel

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Noun1.Fulmar petrel - heavy short-tailed oceanic bird of polar regionsfulmar petrel - heavy short-tailed oceanic bird of polar regions
fulmar, Fulmarus glacialis
petrel - relatively small long-winged tube-nosed bird that flies far from land
Fulmarus, genus Fulmarus - fulmars
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The condor lays a couple of eggs and the ostrich a score, and yet in the same country the condor may be the more numerous of the two: the Fulmar petrel lays but one egg, yet it is believed to be the most numerous bird in the world.
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The fulmar petrel also breeds along the cliffs and numbers more than 200 pairs, and a substantial number of the UK's cormorants have bred on Marsden Rock and Jack Rock in recent years.
Environment: Efforts ensure special; Romans started quarrying
BIRD NOTES With Julian Hughes HAS someone targeted Fulmar Petrels on Conwy coast?
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