TUBE-NOSED SWIMMERS 



EGG OF SOOTY ALBATROSS — White 



FULMARS, SHEARWATERS and PETRELS 



Family PROCELLARIDAE 



Fulmars, Shearwaters and Petrels are Gull-like birds with two nostril tubes 

 located side by side, in a single tube, on the top of the bill at it's base. 



The Fulmars are mostly northern birds while the majority of the Shear- 

 waters nest in the extreme south during our winter, and appear off our coasts 

 during the summer. Their food consists of fish or offal which they get from 

 the surface of the water; large flocks of them hover about fishermen, watch- 

 ing their chance to get any food which falls, or is thrown, overboard. 



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