Tag: gannets

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Boobies, Really?

June 26, 2019 by Tom Brown 3 Comments

It is my sincere intent to have a short discussion about small group of birds, the Boobies, without any form of sophomoric humor. Those...

Birding, I and the Bird

I and the Bird: What is a Booby?

November 7, 2013 by Nate 2 Comments

Let’s address, up front, the funny name. We get it. If those 16th Century Spanish sailors knew the kind of grief with which they’d...

I and the Bird

Call for I and the Bird: Show me your Sulids!

October 21, 2013 by Nate No Comments

I realize the potential for inappropriateness here is high. That the birds known by ornithologists as “Sulids” and by the general public, often accompanied...

Birds

Northern Gannets Morus bassanus

March 7, 2013 by Corey 4 Comments

Northern Gannets are a phenomenal seabird to watch. Their plunge diving is legendary, their flight is distinctive, their willingness to shake it up in the chum...

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Protecting nesting birds

August 19, 2012 by Clare M 5 Comments

Over the past week I have continued to monitor the Pied Oystercatchers along our coast and as usual I observe the birds fight against...

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Northern Gannets in New York Waters

January 26, 2010 by Corey 5 Comments

This will be the last post using material from the pelagic trip I took over a week ago, but I think I might have...

Birds

Northern Gannet

November 9, 2007 by Mike 12 Comments

Those of us who scan the shores of the North Atlantic are privileged to occasionally encounter that most pulchritudinous of pelagic birds, the Northern...

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