Looking different to the fulmars in Europe, this split is supported by Peter Harrison, but not by the IOC.
Darker birds predominate in these populations, these shots were taken on film many years ago in the Bering Sea, and although we saw thousands folllowing trawlers
we only saw one white bird. The taxon breeds around the Bering Sea, especially on the Commanders and Kuril Islands and the Aleutian chain, and disperses south
ahead of the ice, being seen off California occasionally with stragglers and vagrants in South Korea, Snares (NZ) and Chile. Although like Northern Fulmar there
are intergrades, the bill is consistently different to that species.
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