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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National Park Week: Everglades National Park
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World Octopus Day
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Queen Elizabeth s Platinum Jubilee
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Let the games (finally) begin!
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The Christmas Bird Count begins
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Happy Halloween!
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Scottish Blackface sheep, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
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World Penguin Day
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Cypress trees in George L. Smith State Park, Georgia
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Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California
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Moon Day
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Green fields of grain
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Aspens in the White River National Forest, Colorado
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Wat Sri Sawai in Sukhothai Historical Park, Thailand
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Celebrating World Art Day
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World Elephant Day
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Remembering the Velvet Revolution
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St. Patricks Day in County Waterford, Ireland
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Celebrating Charles Darwin
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American Eagle Day
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Sundance Film Festival
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Boxing Day
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For the love of bikes
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Mekong River Delta, Long An, Vietnam
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American Wetlands Month
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Life carries on, rising from a ship s skeleton
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park turns 92!
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Welcome to California
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New beginnings
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