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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Chilling out on an ice floe
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World Meteorological Day
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International Sloth Day
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Park of the Monsters
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Bohemian waxwings
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Dunluce Castle, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
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Edinburgh Festival Fringe
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On a dark and stormy night...
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Stop and smell the Sakura
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A prickly customer
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Panoramic Penzance
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Rapa Valley in Sarek National Park, Sweden
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Castle Stalker, Argyll, Scotland
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