Boobies that nest on the ground, the masked gannet and the brown booby, are also found on remote cays of the Great Barrier Reef. |
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Hebrideans have always prized the gannet, both as a dish and for lamp fuel. |
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The gannet is the largest member of the unfortunately-named booby family and the most common on the Atlantic coast. |
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With its strong powerful flight, a gannet can travel far in almost any weather. |
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Nelson immersed himself in all things gannet, recording their sounds, habits and body language. |
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When a gannet sees a fish in the water below, it dives more or less vertically, with partially folded wings and great speed. |
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Between late May and mid-June the female gannet lays a single bluish-white egg in the moss-lined hollow at the top of the nest. |
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Its short legs and large webbed feet make the gannet a slow and clumsy creature on land. |
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The gannet may fly alone or as part of a group, usually cruising 18 to 30 m above the sea. |
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As the gannet prepares to dive, its air cells are inflated to cushion its body when it strikes the water. |
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Nonetheless, the gannet is less exposed to the adverse effects of oil than seabirds that spend more time on the water. |
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Recent telemetry studies have revealed that the Northern gannet can travel distances of up to 200 km per day. |
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A diving gannet is a signal to others cruising nearby that a shoal of fish may be present, and they fly to investigate. |
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Once in the water, the young gannet may live on body fat for days, until it masters the specialized and difficult art of plunge-diving for food. |
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For this reason there is a close relationship between the location of northern gannet breeding colonies and the distribution of these fish. |
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Northern gannet colonies can be found in the far north in regions that are very cold and stormy. |
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The three gannet species are now usually placed in the genus Morus, Abbott's booby in Papasula, and the remaining boobies in Sula. |
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At one time, the various gannet species were considered to be a single species. |
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There is also a gannet colony in northern France, with 6 000 pairs. |
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At the tip of the Gaspé Peninsula, in Quebec, the large gannet and murre colony at Bonaventure Island can be reached by regular tour boats from Percé. |
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The northern gannet does not have a very characteristic acoustic repertory. |
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Seabirds: Herring gull, common shag, atlantic puffin, common murre, pied oystercatcher, northern gannet, several gull species, northern fulmar, manx shearwater, common tern. |
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Using mathematical models, scientists showed that northern gannet, sandwich tern, black-legged kittiwake, common guillemot and razorbill are suitable for the future impact evaluation. |
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The boys loved the sight of a great Skua, or bonxie, attacking a much larger gannet to make it drop its load of fish. |
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Off South-West Africa, the discovery in 1843 of the tiny island of Ichaboe, covered in 25 feet of penguin and gannet excrement, led to a guano rush followed by a mutiny and battles. |
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The northern gannet has the same colours as the Australasian gannet and is similar in appearance. |
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The water temperature determines the distribution of Atlantic mackerel and herring, which are the main food source for the northern gannet. |
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Old names for the northern gannet include solan and solan goose. |
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The third series, due for release on August 11, includes gannet, ringed plover, grey glover, golden plover, greenshank, curlew, herring gull and great black-backed gull. |
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The wings of the northern gannet are long and narrow and are positioned towards the front of the body, allowing efficient use of air currents when flying. |
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The Northern Gannet is a large pelagic bird that only comes ashore to breed. |
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The Gannet has double in-line Mamba turbojet engines driving two sets of contra-rotating propellers though a single driveshaft. |
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We also saw our first pelagic bird, the natty Northern Gannet. |
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Additionally, Gannet SAR provided a medical evacuation service to the Scottish island communities. |
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A Gannet was blown onto Porthmadog's Llyn Bach, followed by a Great Skua on nearby Glaslyn Marshes, where a Slavonian Grebe is overwintering. |
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Gannet pairs are monogamous and may remain together over several seasons, if not for all their lives. |
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