Slender-billed Fulmar
“Priocella tenuirostris. Slender-billed Fulmar. Adult: Plumage white, with clear pearly-blue mantle, and black primaries, just like a gull; the mantle beginning faintly on the nape, continuing over whole back, rump, tail, wing-coverts and inner quills; edge of the wing slaty-gray; primaries black, their shafts yellowish-white at base, their inner webs pearly-white to near the ends; white of first primary extending to within two inches of the tip, further on the rest successively, reaching the end on the 6th; outer webs of secondaries slaty-black, inner white; a small dusky spot before eye; a faint pearly shade on sides of breast and body. Bill and feet (dry) yellow; nasal tube and hood obscured with bluish horn-color.” Elliot Coues, 1884
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birds, ornithology, seabirds, North American birds, aquatic feeding birds, Priocella tenuirostris, Slender-billed FulmarGalleries
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Elliot Coues Key to North American Birds (Boston, MA: Estes and Lauriat, 1884)
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