Get Free Checker

gannet

[ UK /ɡˈænɪt/ ]
NOUN
  1. large heavily built seabird with a long stout bill noted for its plunging dives for fish

How To Use gannet In A Sentence

  • We also saw our first pelagic bird, the natty Northern Gannet.
  • POISED with its wings spread out in the air, the gannet was the ideal subject for Javier Martin’s photograph. Hanging About For the Perfect Photograph | Impact Lab
  • Usually you can expect to see great numbers of pelagic birds - gannets, shearwaters, jaegers, storm-petrels, alcids - that live mainly at sea.
  • As gannets wheeled and dived into the blue-green waters, Muiris scattered most of the ashes over the sea.
  • The off-shore islands, which are part of the estate, provide sanctuary for several world-famous bird colonies including the exceptional Eilean Dubh gannetry.
  • Within Sulidea, skeletal differences have been cited to support splitting gannets and boobies into two genera, Sula and Morus respectively.
  • Many species - including gannets, puffins, guillemots, and kittiwakes - nest on cuffs over 900 feet high.
  • Nine times out of 10 when he finds gannets, pelicans, or terns diving on bay anchovies, pogies, or threadfin herring, he also finds a school of redfish feasting on the same bait. Flyfishing for Redfish on the Flats from Texas to Florida
  • It was the noise of thousands of baby cormorants, razorbills, gannets and guillemots, demanding food from their nests on the cliffs.
  • Further out to sea, a flock of gannets rested on the surface, digesting their meal.
View all