A female Northern fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) with her chick nesting in Flatey, Iceland

Pintado Petrel (Daption capense), family Procellariidae, order Procellariiformes, off the coast of South Africa

The only member of this genus.

Annoyed by others? Need your own space? Take a page from the snow petrel's book, and vomit! Adults, particularly nesting adults, will upchuck a special kind of stomach oil called mumiyo at potential threats like skuas. Because the petrels nest in the same place year after year, the mumiyo will harden and build up; in some places, scientists have excavated layers of vomit dating back more than 34,000 years!

Northern Fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis)