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We also saw our first pelagic bird, the natty Northern Gannet.
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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
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Usually you can expect to see great numbers of pelagic birds - gannets, shearwaters, jaegers, storm-petrels, alcids - that live mainly at sea.
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As gannets wheeled and dived into the blue-green waters, Muiris scattered most of the ashes over the sea.
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The off-shore islands, which are part of the estate, provide sanctuary for several world-famous bird colonies including the exceptional Eilean Dubh gannetry.
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Within Sulidea, skeletal differences have been cited to support splitting gannets and boobies into two genera, Sula and Morus respectively.
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Many species - including gannets, puffins, guillemots, and kittiwakes - nest on cuffs over 900 feet high.
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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
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It was the noise of thousands of baby cormorants, razorbills, gannets and guillemots, demanding food from their nests on the cliffs.
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Further out to sea, a flock of gannets rested on the surface, digesting their meal.
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The sloop HMS Gannet protected British trade routes and did anti-slavery patrol in the 19th century.
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Codey, D-Essex, privately told Gannett New Jersey that the New Jersey Education Association, the state's largest teachers 'union, had approached him beforehand to argue the use of the so-called "matchbook" degrees should be negotiated in contract talks.
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Usually you can expect to see great numbers of pelagic birds - gannets, shearwaters, jaegers, storm-petrels, alcids - that live mainly at sea.
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While there are few wild animals in Iceland, there is abundant birdlife - ducks, geese and, among the many sea-birds I spotted, petrels, puffins, tern, gannets, skuas and shearwaters.
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St Kilda is home to the world's largest colony of gannets and the largest colonies of fulmars and puffins in Britain.
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Usually you can expect to see great numbers of pelagic birds - gannets, shearwaters, jaegers, storm-petrels, alcids - that live mainly at sea.
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The air and sea were alive with graceful gannets, bumble-bee-like puffins and delicate shearwaters.
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Bempton is the largest seabird colony in England and is home to a breathtaking array of gannets, guillemots, razorbills, kittiwakes, fulmars - and puffins.
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Fall, of course, is the best time to see migrants: peregrine falcons, merlins, and flocks of tree swallows at Assateague; northern gannets just offshore; and plenty of Canadian and snow geese soaring above.
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LONDON— Royal Dutch Shell PLC may be prosecuted for the U.K.'s worst oil spill in a decade, after Energy and Climate Change Secretary Chris Huhne said an investigation into a leak from Shell's Gannet Alpha platform last month will be sent to Scotland's public prosector.
Shell May Face Prosecution for Spill
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This overlooks two vast sea stacks that are covered in gannets.
Times, Sunday Times
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and other groups released the pelicans and one northern gannet.
Pelicans Rehabbed From Gulf Oil Spill Released Into Texas Wildlife Refuge
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Already birdwatchers flock to the area to gaze at kittiwake, razorbills, gannets and puffins at Bempton Cliffs, while further down the coast at Blacktoft Sands the reedbeds provide a home for other rare breeds.
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Around the rocky shores sea birds such as gulls, terns, cormorants, gannets and puffins nested in the cliffs and dunes.
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They can also see puffins, ospreys, ptarmigans, gannets, and a springtime explosion of breeding birds on the coastal cliffs.
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Cormorants and shags have been considered closely related to other totipalmate birds (tropicbirds, frigatebirds, anhingas, gannets and boobies, pelicans), which when taken together, form Pelecaniformes.
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Here, you can watch seabirds such as gannets and puffins up close - or stay inside and watch live videos, using remote control television cameras, from the nearby seabird colonies.
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Along thousands of miles of coastline, you will see colonies of seabirds clustered in cliffs - gannets, puffins, guillemots, razorbills, and kittiwakes.
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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.
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Today it's the world's largest single rock gannetry with 40,000 pairs returning to breed each year.
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The Northern Gannet is a large pelagic bird that only comes ashore to breed.
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These days, although they're protected by the EU directive on the conservation of wild birds, a quota of 2,000 baby gannets can be harvested annually, by special dispensation of the Scottish executive.
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Mrs. Fryar-Gannett had then become the blazing regnant antisocial star; a distresser of domesticity, the magnetic attraction in the spirituous flames of that wild snapdragon bowl, called the Upper class; and she was angelically blonde, a straw-coloured Beauty.
Diana of the Crossways — Volume 5
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Jones also said Gannett Offset is reaping some benefits from CC1's APR software, which automatically calculates and corrects any unit-to-unit mistiming that may occur prior to makeready.
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We had seen guillemots, gannets, razorbills, puffins and cormorants by the time we reached the first of the four shipwrecks we would dive over this weekend.
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Many of the nesting birds live in colonies: the northern gannet, the blacklegged kittiwake, the heron, the double-crested shag, the thick-billed murre, the Atlantic puffin, and the razorbill.
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The Gannett grant will be used to buy saws, planers, drills and other woodworking equipment.
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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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As gannets are very buoyant, they need to hit the water at high speed, wings open for maximum control until about half a second prior to impact when they tuck their wings tightly into their bodies to avoid injury and increase penetration.
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Nonetheless, mariners landing in 1803 and 1822 found no inhabitants save ‘cormorants, petrels, gannets, man-of-war birds, and turtles weighing from five hundred to seven hundred pounds.’
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It does untold damage to the numerous pelagic seabirds indigenous to the area: murres, puffins and gannets.
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The Science article includes a picture of the gannetry on Bird Island, the largest in the world, by a Port Elizabeth photo-journalist and author.
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Bempton is the largest seabird colony in England and is home to a breathtaking array of gannets, guillemots, razorbills, kittiwakes, fulmars - and puffins.
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The gannet is the scrap merchant of the ocean, its trash collector.
A Year on the Wing
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Goddard submitted to the court a copy of what he calls a confidential memo from Gannett to Lee prepared in January when it was first announced that the Citizen would close unless a buyer was found.
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We had seen guillemots, gannets, razorbills, puffins and cormorants by the time we reached the first of the four shipwrecks we would dive over this weekend.
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Usually you can expect to see great numbers of pelagic birds - gannets, shearwaters, jaegers, storm-petrels, alcids - that live mainly at sea.
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It's a Gannett paper, part of a chain renowned for appealing to those it sees as having power.
Living in Dryden: Can't we all just get along?
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Scotland has seen significant rises in populations of gannets, common gulls and puffins, but other species, such as the arctic tern, are in steep decline.
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Great skuas, gannets, fulmars, blackheaded gulls and a few guillemots played like children.
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Naturalists with sturdy sea legs can take a trip out to the gannetry at Bass Rock or stay on land and observe it from North Berwick's Sea Life Centre.
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One of the first oil-covered birds to be cleaned up and released in early May was a northern gannet that should have been on its way north to a breeding colony on the Atlantic coast of Canada.
Spill’s danger to migratory birds
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This is the highest rate of growth ever recorded on Wales 'only gannetry.
WalesOnline - Home
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Many of the nesting birds live in colonies: the northern gannet, the blacklegged kittiwake, the heron, the double-crested shag, the thick-billed murre, the Atlantic puffin, and the razorbill.
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While there are few wild animals in Iceland, there is abundant birdlife - ducks, geese and, among the many sea-birds I spotted, petrels, puffins, tern, gannets, skuas and shearwaters.
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Far out to sea lies the gannet colony of Grassholm.
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It does untold damage to the numerous pelagic seabirds indigenous to the area: murres, puffins and gannets.
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It is home to many birds such as albatross, penguins, cormorants, gulls and gannets, and the New Zealand fur seal, which can easily be seen from the road lazing around in rocky areas.
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Gannett has always been a devoted practitioner of the art.
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Fall, of course, is the best time to see migrants: peregrine falcons, merlins, and flocks of tree swallows at Assateague; northern gannets just offshore; and plenty of Canadian and snow geese soaring above.
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Usually you can expect to see great numbers of pelagic birds - gannets, shearwaters, jaegers, storm-petrels, alcids - that live mainly at sea.
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But unlike in England, where UK Coal owns 13 of the 14 remaining collieries, Scottish Coal had no way of juggling output when Longannet hit production problems.
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Around the rocky shores sea birds such as gulls, terns, cormorants, gannets and puffins nested in the cliffs and dunes.
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Along thousands of miles of coastline, you will see colonies of seabirds clustered in cliffs - gannets, puffins, guillemots, razorbills, and kittiwakes.
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Around the rocky shores sea birds such as gulls, terns, cormorants, gannets and puffins nested in the cliffs and dunes.
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It does untold damage to the numerous pelagic seabirds indigenous to the area: murres, puffins and gannets.
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The air is thick with gannets, and over the years, I have encountered blue, sei, humpback and minke whales and orcas within a stone's throw of the rock.
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I saw the usual assortment of indistinguishable scoters, some oldsquaws, a small flock of brant, and a northern gannet.
Archive 2009-04-01
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Some 100 acres of his farm runs on to the Flamborough Head clifftops, next door to the RSPB sanctuary, with puffins, guillemots and gannets flying below and birds like linnets, grey partridge and corn bunting in the fields.
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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
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These observations have implications for our understanding of the foraging capabilities of gannets, and the interactions of gannets with commercially targeted fish species.
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Another group of gannets crossed my field of view.
Times, Sunday Times
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Although the gannets and other seabirds that nest at Bempton in their tens of thousands have now left the area for a winter at sea, there will still be birds to see at the reserve over the coming months.
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Gannets are denizens of the open ocean.
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Kathleen Jamie should have used quicklime rather than caustic soda to deflesh her gannet's skull, but maggots would have been best.
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Bempton is the largest seabird colony in England and is home to a breathtaking array of gannets, guillemots, razorbills, kittiwakes, fulmars - and puffins.
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The gannet is a great diver, plunging down into the sea from a considerable height, such as forty feet.
Beowulf
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It was the noise of thousands of baby cormorants, razorbills, gannets and guillemots, demanding food from their nests on the cliffs.
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Gannett, the nation's most predatory newspaper conglomerate, is still trying to take over the rack distribution business.
Archive 2006-05-01
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The first two oiled birds found since the spill, a northern gannet and a brown pelican, were cleaned, rehabilitated and released at Florida's Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, the National Audubon Society said.
Engineers trying multiple tactics in battle to plug oil well in Gulf of Mexico
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Great skuas, gannets, fulmars, blackheaded gulls and a few guillemots played like children.
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It is here we find the boobies, shearwaters, gannets, petrels, and the albatross.
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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.
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They navigated by following the flight pattern of gannets and plied the oarsmen with whisky so when they arrived ‘there was scarce one of our crew able to manage cable or anchor’.
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Five of the penguins which were bludgeoned to death in a brutal attack on six penguins, two gannets and two pelicans at the East London aquarium on Sunday night.
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But this young gannet must have caught the bonxie with peripheral vision.
Times, Sunday Times
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Uncomforted by nicotine the man's spirits plummeted like a gannet after sprats.
Down go the fairy lights and down go Middlesbrough's promotion hopes | Harry Pearson
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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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Gannet - To subsist by the wings of his virtue and merit, having little land to rest upon.
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While there are few wild animals in Iceland, there is abundant birdlife - ducks, geese and, among the many sea-birds I spotted, petrels, puffins, tern, gannets, skuas and shearwaters.
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Gannets, fulmars and kittiwakes all constitute a hazard to a frisky live-bait, as do blue sharks.
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The large offshore rock behind the eastern headland is The Mouls, which is a breeding site for puffins, gannets and kittiwakes.
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Throughout the isles you'll come across throngs of Arctic terns and both species of skuas, as well as black guillemots, gannets, shags, and Storm and Leach's petrels.
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The bird, a young northern gannet found offshore, is normally white with a yellow head.
Document: BP didn't plan for a major oil spill
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It reared some 175m above the water, its crevices packed with noisy gannets, puffins, guillemots and gulls.
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Known locally as solan geese, gannets are Britain's biggest seabird, having a wingspan of up to six feet.
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We will stop en route to enjoy the birdlife of Langebaan Lagoon, the colony of Cape Gannets at Lambert's Bay, and the more unusual passerines of the arid areas; in particular the tit-babblers, larks and crombecs.
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We had seen guillemots, gannets, razorbills, puffins and cormorants by the time we reached the first of the four shipwrecks we would dive over this weekend.
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The gannets dive-bombing into the sea is the divine sign from above.
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Bempton is the largest seabird colony in England and is home to a breathtaking array of gannets, razorbills, and puffins.
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Mrs. Fryar-Gannett had then become the blazing regnant antisocial star; a distresser of domesticity, the magnetic attraction in the spirituous flames of that wild snapdragon bowl, called the Upper class; and she was angelically blonde, a straw-coloured
Diana of the Crossways — Complete
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This bird, along with the other cormorants, shags, anhingas and gannets are placed into the same taxonomic order as pelicans -- although the pelicans are much more closely related to the storks than to the Phalacrocoracidae.
Mystery bird: Neotropic cormorant, Phalacrocorax brasilianus
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Investments in 2008 had been inflated by spending on extraordinary items, such as flue-gas desulfurization scrubbers at Scottish Power's Longannet coal-fired power plant, Mr. Galán said.
Iberdrola Cuts Spending Plans
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They can also see puffins, ospreys, ptarmigans, gannets, and a springtime explosion of breeding birds on the coastal cliffs.
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Well, the black stones will no longer be dug from Longannet, Scotland's last deep mine, and that fringe of gold now fears the tarnish of economic inactivity and community depression.
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Four of the six larger patches have each a sand bank near the middle, which do not appear to have been lately covered by the tide; and they are now more or less frequented by sea birds, such as noddies, boobies, tropic, and man-of-war birds, gannets, and perhaps some others.
A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2
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Further north Muriwai beach is a favourite spot for viewing New Zealand's northernmost breeding colony of gannets.
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It is here we find the boobies, shearwaters, gannets, petrels, and the albatross.
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It is here we find the boobies, shearwaters, gannets, petrels, and the albatross.
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He rose to city editor, and survived the Gannett takeover, remaining until 1985.
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A rescue worker feeds a northern gannet bird from the Gulf of Mexico region a dose of Pepto-Bismol today to combat complications from oil ingested when the bird tried to preen its feathers.
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Along thousands of miles of coastline, you will see colonies of seabirds clustered in cliffs - gannets, puffins, guillemots, razorbills, and kittiwakes.
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While there are few wild animals in Iceland, there is abundant bird life - ducks, geese and, among the many sea-birds I spotted, petrels, puffins, tern, gannets, skuas and shearwaters.
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Those gathered at the gates of Longannet witnessed the despair of many, and the anger flickering briefly across some faces.
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Sandy Neck, Barnstable, and First Encounter Beach, Eastham, are Cape places to observe shearwaters, jaegers, phalaropes, ducks, gannets and for a few lucky sentinels, an occasional northern fulmar.
