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
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World Ski and Snowboard Festival
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Lake Superior, Thunder Bay, Ontario
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Happy Lunar New Year!
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Splendid leaf frog
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Ardez village, Graubunden, Switzerland
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Shenandoah National Park, Virginia
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Happy Canada Day!
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World Wildlife Day
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A fox in the dunes
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Polar Bear Week
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Like paint on a canvas
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Cousins Day
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Happy Easter!
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Scenic Mount Michener
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Wahclella Falls, Oregon, USA
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Modica, Sicily, Italy
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European river otter
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San Gimignano, Siena, Italy
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Back to the future
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Kickoff in Qatar
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