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Boobies that nest on the ground, the masked gannet and the brown booby, are also found on remote cays of the Great Barrier Reef.
Hebrideans have always prized the gannet, both as a dish and for lamp fuel.
The gannet is the largest member of the unfortunately-named booby family and the most common on the Atlantic coast.
With its strong powerful flight, a gannet can travel far in almost any weather.
Nelson immersed himself in all things gannet, recording their sounds, habits and body language.
When a gannet sees a fish in the water below, it dives more or less vertically, with partially folded wings and great speed.
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.
Its short legs and large webbed feet make the gannet a slow and clumsy creature on land.
The gannet may fly alone or as part of a group, usually cruising 18 to 30 m above the sea.
As the gannet prepares to dive, its air cells are inflated to cushion its body when it strikes the water.
Nonetheless, the gannet is less exposed to the adverse effects of oil than seabirds that spend more time on the water.
Recent telemetry studies have revealed that the Northern gannet can travel distances of up to 200 km per day.
A diving gannet is a signal to others cruising nearby that a shoal of fish may be present, and they fly to investigate.
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.
For this reason there is a close relationship between the location of northern gannet breeding colonies and the distribution of these fish.
Northern gannet colonies can be found in the far north in regions that are very cold and stormy.
The three gannet species are now usually placed in the genus Morus, Abbott's booby in Papasula, and the remaining boobies in Sula.
At one time, the various gannet species were considered to be a single species.
There is also a gannet colony in northern France, with 6 000 pairs.
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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Examples from Classical Literature
This species is the largest and most northerly distributed of the gannet family.
On the same authority I learn that a solan goose, or gannet, has been known to visit this stream.
This forenoon we saw a gannet, a sand-lark, and some water-snakes, which in general were from two to three feet long.
The first soon made her number, and left no doubt as to her being the gannet.
It was evident that the gannet herself could do nothing to assist her prize.
The earl was conducted to a sitting-room, where Dr. gannet left him for a while.
Like the Albatross, the gannet may almost be said to live in the air.
She exchanged colours with the brig, and proved to be the gannet.
The gannet took two or three more prizes, and sent them into Jamaica.
Csar was gitting as straight as a crowbar and as grim as a gannet.
But how will the gannet get on without her boatswain, Mr Pringle?
Papa has also worked as a sales manager for a Gannet Publication niche magazine called The Nursing Spectrum and a marketing manager for Combine Optical Management.
I know for a fact there are other serving members of the armed forces who lease out properties they own in Ayr, Prestwick and Troon to Gannet personnel.
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