Field signs. It looks like a large tea (weight 700-800 g). Nostrils beak open in special tubes. Coloring of two types: white with gray wings and tail or dymchato-gray. Flight easy, smooth. Often parit. Fly in any weather. Good flies; highly sits on the water. Very doverchiv, almost not at all afraid of man (hence its name). In flocks Crickley and shumliv. Voice - gross cackle (Syroechkovsky, Rogacheva, 1980). Distribution. Inhabitants of the rocky sea coasts of the North. In the Krasnoyarsk region, apparently did not nest (it is possible nesting on the North Land), but meets regularly in a small number at kochevkah on the coast of Northern Earth and the Northern Taimyr, mainly on the West Bank. This kochuet Atlantic subspecies silly, nesting on the rookery Franz Josef Land and Novaya Zemlya (Syroechkovsky, Rogacheva, 1980). Area divided: Atlantic fulmar (F. g. glacialis L., 1761) nest to the east, including on-in privacy (83 ° E); Pacific subspecies (F. g. rodgersii Cassin, 1862) - on the islands of the Bering Sea. In the Kara Sea in different seasons occasionally found in kochevkah off the coast of the North-West Taimyr and Severnaya Zemlya (western subspecies). Russian polar expedition E. Tolle met silly between 19 and 24 Sept., 1901 in the Laptev Sea, on its way from Taimyr to the on-woo Bennett (Rogacheva, 1988). Reproduction. Gnezditsya colonies, less individual pairs. Colonies located on the edge of the rocky cliffs, sometimes on the beach, at the foot of the rocks. Nest - fossa, vystlannaya grass. If the ground is soft, fossa is deep, and nasizhivayuschaya bird hides it before the half. In laying one, rarely two very large eggs (weighing up to 100 grams each). Nasizhivayuschie birds are protected, vybrasyvaya mouth oily liquids up to 50 cm (Syroechkovsky, Rogacheva, 1980). Nutrition. Feeds mainly fish and marine invertebrates (Syroechkovsky, Rogacheva, 1980). References. |
