Dan Belton ( No Badger Cull ) In Memoriam
Fulmarus glacialis
Another old one of a fulmar at Crantock beach in Cornwall, they'd all gone by September when we went this year. I was gutted because I like nothing more than watching them bombing along the clifftops over and over right above your head, I love 'em ! They're known as tubenoses because of the apparatus above the bill which enables them to drink salt water and excrete the salt out of it. I read that they're so well adapted to life at sea that they can't walk or even stand, I've never seen them doing either but I don't know if it's true. They can spit a foul smelling liquid apparently if you get too close, thankfully I never have ! The name fulmar means foul-gull which is doubly inaccurate ( to me at least ) because I think they're beautiful and of course they're not gulls. They can live for 40 years which is pretty amazing too. They're amazingly agile and fast flying just a bit rubbish on land !
Fulmarus glacialis
Another old one of a fulmar at Crantock beach in Cornwall, they'd all gone by September when we went this year. I was gutted because I like nothing more than watching them bombing along the clifftops over and over right above your head, I love 'em ! They're known as tubenoses because of the apparatus above the bill which enables them to drink salt water and excrete the salt out of it. I read that they're so well adapted to life at sea that they can't walk or even stand, I've never seen them doing either but I don't know if it's true. They can spit a foul smelling liquid apparently if you get too close, thankfully I never have ! The name fulmar means foul-gull which is doubly inaccurate ( to me at least ) because I think they're beautiful and of course they're not gulls. They can live for 40 years which is pretty amazing too. They're amazingly agile and fast flying just a bit rubbish on land !