How to Use gannet in a Sentence

gannet

noun
  • No one lives there anymore, aside from gannets and puffins.
    — Dave Altimari, Hartford Courant, 16 Feb. 2026
  • The team then stuffed two real northern gannet wings with cotton and propped them up in a wind tunnel.
    — Mennatalla Ibrahim, Science | AAAS, 7 July 2021
  • The shoals attract diving gannets and orcas.
    — David Greig september 15, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
  • But types of gannets have settled all over the world, including in Scotland.
    — Yonette Joseph, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2018
  • The tākapu, or Australasian gannet, has nostrils in its mouth and eyes that can change shapes.
    — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Viking Age explorers followed ocean foragers such as guillemots and gannets to new shores.
    — Cheryl Katz, Smithsonian, 17 Jan. 2017
  • The severe southeast coast here is gorgeous in its craggy rawness — known as an ideal spot to glimpse egrets, herons, and gannets.
    — Ross Kenneth Urken, Travel + Leisure, 14 July 2023
  • Look out on the cliffs below the trail for breeding pelagic and Brandt’s cormorants, as well as the lonely northern gannet.
    — Jill K. Robinson, SFChronicle.com, 12 July 2018
  • Little Skellig, where boats are not allowed to land, is a seabird sanctuary to one of the largest colonies in the world of northern gannets.
    — Julia Blakely, Smithsonian, 11 Jan. 2018
  • On the starboard side of the Launch Out, a flock of gannets follows the boat in a cacophony of greedy cackles.
    — Matthew Bremner, Slate Magazine, 24 July 2017
  • Anyway, down there in the middle of a lonely sea, the person in the boat says that the calls of gannets and the cries of curlews are what have replaced men’s laughter for them.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 11 May 2022
  • Hop on one of the boats waiting at the dock in Perce to cross to this unique park where a massive gathering of northern gannets lands every year to raise their young.
    — Sylvie Bigar, miamiherald, 4 Nov. 2017
  • Marine birds also included mallards, common scoters (a large sea duck), geese, cormorants, gannets, shags, auks, egrets and loons.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 26 Mar. 2020
  • Nigel, a handsome gannet bird who lived on a desolate island off the coast of New Zealand, died suddenly this week.
    — Author: Karin Brulliard, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Feb. 2018
  • Scientists have been studying this phenomenon for a very long time, including recent work on diving birds like gannets and kingfishers.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 6 Nov. 2023
  • In the 1990s, conservationists set up concrete gannets on the western side of Mana to lure real birds.
    — Yonette Joseph, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2018
  • Yet despite the stress on their bodies, gannets (like the kingfisher) manage the feat again and again without injury, especially concussions.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Among the animals that come out to prey are albatross, Cape gannets, African penguins, humpback whales, Cape fur seals, dolphins, and sharks.
    — National Geographic, 4 Nov. 2016
  • Environmentalists said that oil and chemicals posed a risk to sea life, including whales and dolphins and to birds, including puffins, gannets and guillemots that live on coastal cliffs.
    — Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Robertson père got 6,000 acres of undulating pastureland and forest atop craggy sea cliffs, one of which is home to the world’s largest mainland colony of gannets.
    — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 17 Jan. 2019
  • Yet these birds are perhaps more famous for their dramatic hunting behavior, which sees flocks of gannets diving like vertical torpedoes from dozens of feet above the water’s surface.
    — Liz Lindqwister, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 July 2024
  • There are also lots of trails for hiking, walking, and running, and a hotel guide can drive you down to the Cape itself for photography of the cliffs as well as an up-close look at the world’s largest colony of gannet birds.
    — Rachel King, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2022
  • That statistic includes common loons, northern gannets, double-crested cormorants, royal terns, Wilson’s plovers, black skimmers, and seaside sparrows, to name a few.
    — National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2020
  • Seabirds like boobies, gannets, and the vulnerable crested tern have flocked to the new island for nesting, and their deposits of poop and feathers are beginning the process that will one day cover the island in soil where plants can grow.
    — Ken Jennings, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Aug. 2018
  • Soaring birds–such as condors, eagles, hawks, albatrosses, gulls, storks and gannets–generally rely on large wingspans and slotted feathers at the wingtip to keep them in flight with little flapping.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • During a summertime visit, guests can marvel at huge crowds of northern gannets packed onto the surface of the formation, while other potential seabird sightings span from the common murre to the black-legged kittiwake to the little auk.
    — Jared Ranahan, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
  • From here, boat excursions depart for the Sept-Îles, an archipelago that’s an important sanctuary for migrating birds, including puffins and northern gannets.
    — Mary Winston Nicklin, AFAR Media, 7 Apr. 2025
  • At Gooseberry Neck, there were 84 black scoters, three ruddy turnstones, three roseate terns, a great shearwater, a Northern gannet, two cliff swallows, and two orchard orioles.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2019
  • The Látrabjarg cliffs -- On the westernmost tip of Iceland is a 14-kilometer stretch of sea cliffs which are home to millions of birds including puffins, gannets, guillemots and razorbills.
    — Kate Springer, CNN, 8 Oct. 2017
  • Perhaps the saddest twist to this tale is that three other gannets settled on Mana last month, after conservation officials tweaked the sound system used to attract them, according to the New Zealand website Stuff.
    — Author: Karin Brulliard, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Feb. 2018

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