Scientific name:
Fulmarus glacialis

Natural spread:
Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, pointed-mountains, Nor

Möwenähnlich, however with these not nearer used, the approximately 48 cm long ice-petrel is in its light phase. Distinguishes it its gedrungeneres head-profile as well as the type typical for petrels, densely over the waves dahinzusegeln, in the flight without flapping much the wings. Even in restless weather, if it must work more with the wings, an ice-petrel holds swinging them more stiffly than a seagull. In its arctic habitat, the more northern populations have a darker plumage-coloring, that can extend from lighter gray to dark blue-gray. The ice-petrels of the North-Atlantic differ negligibly from Pacific copies so that one divides it (probably not completely justifiable) in 2 subtypes. The sexes are immediately colored with what the male birds should be somewhat bigger in general.

Spread Since these petrels like to assume also animal garbages as food, they probably derived benefits from the fish-industry extending itself and can increase its spread-area. The brood-areas of the ice-petrels are to be done, cliffs and coast-rocks ledge-are enough, less frequently also at the flat beaches of the coasts Kamtschatkas, the Kurilen as well as the eastern Siberia, still at the northern shores of Alaska and Canada, on Greenland, Iceland, pointed-mountains, Nowaja Semlja and in Norway.