Gannets began nesting here in 1917, and in summer months their molting feathers fill the air like fairy dust. The colony itself is a riot of squawking, flapping, and jabbing. The choicest nest ...

Nesting gannets can be seen on the northerly cliffs ... This young gannet still has down rather than feathers, so it will be spared At around 04:30 in the morning a watery dawn light crept across ...

"It is the nature of the proximity of nesting with gannets that appears to be the problem. They nest cheek by jowl, or beak by feather, and that lends itself to spreading more readily," she said.

Bird Rock is the third largest nesting site of northern gannets in North America. The steep rocks here are overflowing with perching, diving and nesting birds during breeding season — a ...

While fish oil itself is not toxic to seabirds, it poses a grave threat by compromising their feather microstructure ... The first group of rescued gannets has already undergone the crucial ...

likewise populations of Gannets and Roseate Terns were also seriously reduced after avian flu killedd thousands of wild birds in 2021-22. The numbers of the three species had been rising before ...

Gannets were one of the hardest hit species in the 2022 avian ... The female lays just one egg in a nest of grass, seaweed, feathers and dirt glued together with droppings. Over the years, the nest ...