| Titre : | Unfamiliar plumage types of Fulmars in the North Atlantic |
| Auteurs : | Robert L. Flood, Auteur ; Hein van Grouw, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | British Birds (108(6) JUN 2015) |
| Article en page(s) : | 331-348 |
| Résumé : | We investigate records of three unfamiliar plumage types of the Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis in the North Atlantic: extra pale, extra dark and those with a dark distal tail-band.The possible explanations for each case are: I) aberrant or variant 'Atlantic Fulmar' F. g. glacialis; 2) hitherto unrecorded morphs of Atlantic Fulmar; and 3) vagrant 'Pacific Fulmar' F. g. rodgersii. We conclude that all records involve aberrant or variant Atlantic Fulmars.A dark distal tail-band noted on about 5% of Fulmars in Spitsbergen is a previously unreported variation. |



