gannet
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- noun
- /ˈɡænɪt/
- The gannet is known for its spectacular headlong dives to catch fish.
- Northern gannets
- Gannets dive
- gannet chicks
Examples
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As gannets dive into the water, they demonstrate their incredible hunting skills.
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In the afternoon we saw gannets and many other birds.
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People will fly here from halfway across the world to gawk at a whale or to take a picture of a gannet.
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Witless Bay hosts the largest North American puffin colony, and the objective was to photograph Atlantic puffins and Northern gannets.
Academic text (2010) -
We lift the anchor and begin following hit squads of gannets as they plunge into the water, as this is apparently the best way to gauge where the shoals are lurking.
Fiction book (2002) -
In Kalbarri itself, there were so many seabirds and waterbirds, including gannets, the osprey, four species of cormorants, and other interesting things like blue-breasted wrens.
Blog text (19) -
Terns and frigate birds on the beach, gannets and gulls on the rocks, noddies and gelinottes in the trees, tropic birds and papangoes in the air.
Fiction book (2001) -
Watching a gannet plummet from the sky is a breathtaking sight for birdwatchers.
Synonyms
A large white sea bird called the northern gannet that lives by North Atlantic coasts
How Large
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word gannet probably comes from an old word meaning 'young goose' or 'big bird', and it is linked to the familiar word goose. So think of a gannet as a big sea 'goose' that dives headfirst into the water to catch fish.