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THE spread southwards of the fulmar along the coasts of the British Isles during recent years is remarkable. The earliest known British colony of fulmar petrels was on St. Kilda. This, indeed, was the only known colony in the British Isles until the year 1878, when a dozen fulmars founded a colony on Foula, in Shetland. In the following year the colony had increased to 20 pairs (Zoologist, 1879, p. 380). From that time until the present day the fulmar has spread, and is still spreading, down the coasts of Britain, and is establishing new colonies yearly along the rock-bound coasts of Scotland, England and Ireland.
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Gordon, S. The Fulmar Petrel. Nature 137, 173–176 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137173a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/137173a0