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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