Hi All
This photo was taken from a ferry in the Bay of Fundy, out in deep water near middle..Day was very cloudy, foggy, windy...sorry for quality, small size, image taken with 70-200 with converter with 1.4 teleconverter, bird was way out there.
I think its a Northern Fulmar but wings seem a little long...do you agree or any ideas?
This as a "blue" morph Northern Fulmar. Fulmars are the petrel equivalent of fullbacks on an (American) football team; they are very compact and chunky bodied, which always looks awkward relative to the typically long, slender, pointed wings. You can see that shape here very well. The underwing pattern is also typical of blue fulmar, and in particular note the very distinctive dark leading edge to the outer primary coverts.
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