Graceful, powerful and impossible to miss—the northern gannet is the largest seabird on the waters of the North Atlantic. It spends most of its time gliding over open seas and returning to land only to breed. These seabirds, known for their vast and noisy breeding colonies, called gannetries, nest on steep cliffs, remote rocky islands and sea stacks that rise from the ocean.
Northern gannets, Shetland Islands, Scotland
Today in History
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International Roller Coaster Day
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International Womens Day
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Sweetheart Abbey, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
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Llansteffan Castle, Carmarthenshire, Wales
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More of a moustache than a beard?
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Greater flamingos, Lüderitz, Namibia
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Colors of spring
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Old City of Dubrovnik in Dalmatia, Croatia
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Moose, Denali National Park, Alaska, United States
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We can all just get along
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266 years of the British Museum
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Cala Luna beach, Sardinia, Italy
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Discovery Day in Yukon, Canada
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Celebrating Robert Burns OR Burns Night
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The Painted Hills, Oregon, USA
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Château de Sully-sur-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire, France
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