gannet's Usage Examples:

gannets in the area at the time.

The young gannets tumble off the rock, hopefully learning to fly on the way down in this ultimate school of hard knocks.

A superb gannet, guillemots, razorbills, shags, kittiwakes and, of course, a lot of gulls where seen.

) and gannet as well as the true pelicans, and for a long while these and some other distinct groups, as the snake-birds (q.

gannet numbers were highest over the continental shelf region, where foraging adults dominated.

gannet colony in the northern hemisphere.

The islands are the home of a large number of birds, including terns, gannets and white egrets, though most of the indigenous species are extinct.

gannets recorded during the incident was along a southwest _ northeast axis from Grassholm (Ibid.

Out at sea gannets were passing and then a chough appeared.

From here I drove to the east to Waihi Beach for some sea watching, but only few Australian gannets passed by.

If the wing of a gannet, just shot, be removed and made to flap in what the operator believes to be a strictly vertical downward direction, the tip of the wing, in spite of him, will dart forwards between 2 and 3 ft.

Setting up our scopes we were soon watching gannets of various ages moving off shore.

Synonyms:

solan, pelecaniform seabird, Sulidae, solan goose, solant goose, booby, Sula bassana, family Sulidae,

Antonyms:

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