In the southern districts, the Inuit hunted fulmars with bird darts from kayaks (Helms 1926). The Nipisat people may have hunted fulmar and great shearwater, probably using similar methods.
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Fulmar
//ˈfʊlmɑː(ɹ)//
Synonyms for "fulmar" (25 found)
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35 translations across 24 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- буревестник noun (seabird in the genus Fulmarus)
Catalan
1 entries- fulmar noun (seabird in the genus Fulmarus)
Czech
1 entries- buřňák noun (seabird in the genus Fulmarus)
Danish
2 entries- isstormfugl noun (seabird in the genus Fulmarus)
- mallemuk noun (seabird in the genus Fulmarus)
Faroese
2 entries- havhestur noun (seabird in the genus Fulmarus)
- náti noun (seabird in the genus Fulmarus)
Finnish
1 entries- myrskyliitäjä noun (seabird in the genus Fulmarus)
French
1 entries- fulmar noun (seabird in the genus Fulmarus)
German
1 entries- Eissturmvogel noun (seabird in the genus Fulmarus)
Greek
1 entries- φουλμάρος noun (seabird in the genus Fulmarus)
Greenlandic
3 entries- malamuk noun (seabird in the genus Fulmarus)
- qaqulluk noun (seabird in the genus Fulmarus)
- timmiakuluk noun (seabird in the genus Fulmarus)
Hungarian
1 entries- hojsza noun (seabird in the genus Fulmarus)
Icelandic
2 entries- fýll noun (seabird in the genus Fulmarus)
- múkki noun (seabird in the genus Fulmarus)
Irish
1 entries- fulmaire noun (seabird in the genus Fulmarus)
Italian
2 entries- fulmaro noun (seabird in the genus Fulmarus)
- ossifraga noun (seabird in the genus Fulmarus)
Manx
1 entries- pibbin vane noun (seabird in the genus Fulmarus)
Old Norse
1 entries- fúlmár noun (seabird in the genus Fulmarus)
Polish
1 entries- fulmar noun (seabird in the genus Fulmarus)
Portuguese
2 entries- fulmar noun (seabird in the genus Fulmarus)
- pardelão noun (seabird in the genus Fulmarus)
Russian
1 entries- глупы́ш noun (seabird in the genus Fulmarus)
Scottish Gaelic
4 entries- eun-crom noun (seabird in the genus Fulmarus)
- fulmair noun (seabird in the genus Fulmarus)
- guga-Tiortach noun (seabird in the genus Fulmarus)
- làir-ghlas (Arisaig) noun (seabird in the genus Fulmarus)
Slovak
1 entries- fulmar noun (seabird in the genus Fulmarus)
Spanish
1 entries- fulmar noun (seabird in the genus Fulmarus)
Swedish
1 entries- stormfågel noun (seabird in the genus Fulmarus)
Welsh
1 entries- adar drycin y graig noun (seabird in the genus Fulmarus)
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In particular, fulmars have the distinctive trait of vomiting half-digested fish oil when approached on the nest and should be given a wide berth wherever possible.
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And why oh why is it always bloody fulmars following us about? Have they got nothing better to do, these silly lickspittle fulmars, than to ape every petty twist and turn of our hollow peregrinations? I'm sick of fulmars.
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