www.arcticstation.nl

define a search string  

[home]  [weblog]  [science]  [people]  [station]  [ny-ålesund]  [sightings]  [sitemap]  [nederlands]

more pages with this keyword at the end of this page  klik hier voor nederlands

Feeding frenzy

31 July 2018

On our way in the middle of the fjord, we come across a group of fulmars with enormous amount of interactions. They are trying to steal eachothers prey. They are so busy that they don't react on our approach.
In the fjord there are at different locations spots with a lot of feeding birds. These spots are sometimes caused by whales who chase small fish and krill to the surface. This is a similar case, but here the puffins and murres are bringing food into reach of the fulmars and kittiwakes.


Above a video which starts when you click on the picture, below pictures made by Christoph Brochard.

Fulmars belong to the tubenoses. Above the bill they have a tube, to get rid of the salt in the salt water they drink, similar as albatrosses. With this well-deveolped salt gland on their skull, they can survive at sea. For us drinking water is deadly as we need one litre of fresh water to neutralize the salt in one litre of sea water. We would dry out when trying to survive on sea water.

Fulmars are famous as vaictims of plastic at sea. Most of them, even here in the Arctic, have plastics in their stomach.



pages containing the string: ''brochard''

weblog

click on the picture for more details
20230217, 14:32
flora key to Draba species

weblog

click on the picture for more details
20230604, 12:00
fieldwork 2023

weblog

click on the picture for more details
20230723, 17:03
the sound of falling ice

weblog

click on the picture for more details
20220725, 18:00
after sees expedition

weblog

click on the picture for more details
20220806, 14:00
artic tern feeds on lepidurus

weblog

click on the picture for more details
20210222, 12:00
flora of Svalbard

weblog

click on the picture for more details
20210715, 15:00
glacier calving
 

weblog

click on the picture for more details
20210719, 15:00
red-throated diver

weblog

click on the picture for more details
20210801, 11:30
bearded seal

weblog

click on the picture for more details
20210804, 15:00
pictures from the perfect day

weblog

click on the picture for more details
20210807, 17:45
murder

weblog

click on the picture for more details
20210917, 11:37
it starts off small

weblog

click on the picture for more details
20200323, 11:00
lake experiment

weblog

click on the picture for more details
20190606, 17:01
field guide to flora of svalbard
 

weblog

click on the picture for more details
20190712, 23:51
christophe

weblog

click on the picture for more details
20190714, 19:38
team 2019

weblog

click on the picture for more details
20190720, 22:30
big feet

weblog

click on the picture for more details
20190728, 15:00
fjordcount with bears

weblog

click on the picture for more details
20180725, 20:26
microscope

weblog

click on the picture for more details
20180726, 11:05
macrofauna

weblog

click on the picture for more details
20180729, 13:00
lake sampling
 

weblog

click on the picture for more details
shown
above
20180731, 14:25
feeding frenzy

weblog

click on the picture for more details
20180803, 16:03
plant photography

weblog

click on the picture for more details
20180803, 18:35
glacier foreland

weblog

click on the picture for more details
20180805, 19:48
ready to fly

weblog

click on the picture for more details
20180909, 12:00
svalbard flora

weblog

click on the picture for more details
20170710, 1000
team groningen

weblog

click on the picture for more details
20170719, 01:30
zooplankton
 

people

click on the picture for more details
20240501, 12:00
team 2024

people

click on the picture for more details
20230603, 12:00
team 2024

people

click on the picture for more details
20220121, 15:00
team 2022

people

click on the picture for more details
20210131, 16:00
team 2021

people

click on the picture for more details
20200302, 11:37
team 2020

people

click on the picture for more details
20190501, 16:00
team 2019

people

click on the picture for more details
20180505, 21:30
team 2018
 

people

click on the picture for more details
20170101, 14:00
team

[home]  [weblog]  [science]  [people]  [station]  [ny-ålesund]  [sightings]  [sitemap]  [nederlands]

click on a picture for more information

pages containing brochard in Dutch: 35  [bekijk]



select a new string