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UK
/ɡˈænɪt/
]
NOUN
- 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.