Gilmore PACIFIC TULMAR © 1931 shadowed by several dozen fulmars about 20 of which were dark. The flock stayed with the boat all day, vying with the gulls as to the final disposition of the ships garbage. Again there seemed to be several individuals that bridged the gap between the extremes of lights & dark color phases. There is no doubt that these fulmars have the habit of following ships at sea for garbage. They generally follow closer to the ship than the albatross and farther away than the gulls. This habit seems to be confined to fulmars south of the Red Aleutian Is. North of the Chain in the Bering Sea and Arctic Ocean the fulmars either absolutely ignore the presence of the ship or veer away from it. Nov. 15. San Francisco Bay. Since leaving the waters off the Coast of Washington, fulmars have been rather scarce this now and then