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| Image details: |
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| Image Description: |
A group of Fulmars congregate behind a boat |
| Image notes: |
Fulmars only learned this way of eating offal behind boats in the last century |
| Species in Image: |
Fulmar |
| Date: |
1970s |
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| Old Haa Image Reference Number: |
btc00194 |
| General details: |
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| Common Name |
Fulmar |
| Latin Name |
Fulmarus glacialis |
| Shetland Name |
Maalie (From the Inuit Maaliemol) |
| Latin Group Name |
Procellariiformes |
| Latin Family Name |
Procellariidae |
| Common Family Name |
Fulmar, Petrels and Shearwaters |
| Description |
First recorded breeding in Shetland was Foula 1878. On that island in 1987 a count showed a total of 46,800 occupied sites. Common breeder all round the Shetland Coast. |
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