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
More Desktop Wallpapers:
-
Camels in the desert, United Arab Emirates
-
A rainbow that’s worth the rainfall
-
Cosmic cliffs
-
Hay bales in North Yorkshire, England
-
European beech forest, Belgium
-
A beautiful labyrinth
-
Vila Franca Islet, São Miguel Island, Azores, Portugal
-
Oktoberfest begins
-
Hiding in the woods
-
A fox in the dunes
-
Castellfollit de la Roca, Catalonia, Spain
-
Get ready for the blood moon
-
Big rocks, big heads
-
Megalong Valley, Blue Mountains National Park, NSW, Australia
-
Prasat Phanom Rung temple ruins, Thailand
-
Asteroid Day
-
English National Ballet performing The Nutcracker
-
Ancient town of Sorano, Tuscany, Italy
-
Festivus
-
Black-naped monarch
-
Hogmanay
-
Flooded crypt, Basilica of San Francesco, Ravenna, Italy
-
Spring equinox
-
National Park Service anniversary
-
Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada
-
An ocean of stars above the desert
-
World Oceans Day
-
West Cornwall Covered Bridge, Connecticut, USA
-
International Nurses Day
-
World Otter Day
Bing Wallpaper Gallery

