But while one may often see the gannet on the wing, it is by no means so often that one will have the good fortune to see him dive, for he is not always hungry.
Gannet now pledged his word to the poor fellow's recovery, and the earl's particular friends arrived, and the countess entertained them.
Gannet was the bearer of Miss Denham's excuses to Lord Romfrey for the delay in begging him to enter the house: in the confusion of the household his lordship's card had been laid on the table below, and she was in the sick-room.
Gannet was of good hope, and thereupon he re-entered the ranks of the voluminous procession, already winding spirally round the dome of St. Paul's.
Gilliland; Notes from Nebraska, Howard Paret; A Gannet over the Hudson River, J.
One wonders how, when the gannet is flying high, on catching sight of a fish directly beneath him in the water, he is able instantly to check his course, get into position and fall just at the right spot.
By and by I saw a gannet drop upon the sea just where two gulls were floating, sending a cloud of spray over one bird and causing both to rock and toss about like little white boats in a whirlpool.
From the gannet he gets nothing; it would be dangerous for him to come in that bird's way, and no sooner is the fish caught than it is swallowed.
South-West 1/2 West 11 Miles from this Head is a very small Island which we named Gannet Island, on account of the Great Number of these Birds we saw upon it.
Egg Bird, and yesterday a Gannet was seen; these are Birds that we reckon never to go far from land.
John shot a Gannet on the wing; the flesh was black and unpleasant.
The feathering of the Gannet is curious, differing from that of most other birds, inasmuch as each feather is concave, and divided in its contour from the next.
I drew all day at an adult Gannet which we brought from the great rock of which I have spoken; it was still in good order.
The Kittiwake makes its nest of eel-weeds, several inches in thickness, and in places too small for a Gannet or a Guillemot to place itself; in some instances these nests projected some inches over the edge of the rock.
The Gannet dives quite under the water after its prey, and when empty of food rises easily off the water.
The body of this gannetis white; the wings are rich chocolate brown.
The house was empty; it was not very far away; he had an hour in which to work undisturbed; and at the expiration of that time he should be back in his room, and ready to set out with the Cadger and Gannet to rob an empty safe.
He had let the Cadger and Gannet take all the initiative--apparently.
After that, the three of them, clustered around the mantel, the Cadger manipulating the dial of the safe while Gannet held the flashlight, had made the discovery in common that the safe had been already looted.
Surely, interminably as the minutes dragged themselves out, the quarter-hour that had stood between ten o'clock and the time he had sent the Cadger and Gannet away was up now!
You were to come here with the Cadger and Gannet at nine o'clock to rob that safe.
At the expiration of that time he had coded a terse cipher report, and had handed it to the Cadger and Gannet for delivery.
It took some time, perhaps twenty minutes; and then he was studying a second sheet of paper upon which he had written the decoded message: The Cadger and Gannet will report to you at nine o'clock.
He had to come back here with the Cadger and Gannet in a little while, and he dared not risk anything that would imperil his role in the eyes of the underworld.
He was once in a boat on the Lough, when, a Gannet being seen a long way ahead, it was determined to give chase, and ascertain whether the statement was correct.
The Gannet lays but one egg; and the young bird is nourished on semi-liquid food disgorged by the parent.
It would not be difficult to compile, from various sources, a description of the Gannet and its habits which would fill more pages than my readers, perhaps, would care to peruse.
The size of the Gannet is somewhat larger than that of the domestic Goose.
As the boat drew near, the Gannetendeavoured to escape by swimming; but made no attempt either to dive or to use its wings.
To the Fulmar indeed, and in a less degree to the Gannet and two or three other sea-birds, the island is indebted for its being able to boast of human inhabitants.
Gannet till the terrified bird disgorges its prey, which the pursuer seizes before it reaches the water.
It was at the Bass that we went through our apprenticeship to marine cliff-climbing, and where we first made the acquaintance of the Gannet at home.
The Gannet is a thoroughly pelagic bird, and only comes to the land to breed, retiring once more to the sea as soon as its young can fly.
As most readers may know, the Bass is one of the few grand breeding-places of the Gannet in the British archipelago.
There are several other rock-birds breeding in some plenty upon the Bass, but the Gannet stamps the rock with its individuality, and all other species are overpowered and comparatively lost amidst its numbers.
A gannet will soar, plunge, dive under water, and swallow half a dozen little fish while a gull is apparently making up his mind whether it is worth while to risk wetting his feet.
Factors influencing clutch-size and chick growth in the North Atlantic gannet Sula bassana.
The breeding distribution, history and population of the North Atlantic gannet (Sula bassana).
Population dynamics of the gannet at Bass Rock, with comparative information for other Sulidae.
Discussion Impact of Human Activity Direct Exploitation According to Norwegian laws, all seabirds, with the exception (for some odd reason) of the gannet and fulmar, can be hunted from 21 August to 1 March.
The changes in the world numbers of the gannet in a century.
Distribution of the gannet (Sula bassana) in Norway.
The gannet has also increased considerably as a fall visitor since about 1945, apparently due to protection in England and other countries.
Establishment and population increase of the gannet Sula bassana in Norway.
The fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) and thegannet (Sula bassana) have both spread from the British Isles and have established a number of breeding colonies in Norway during this century.
At times, in the sheer abyss of blue sky to the north, a hawk suspended: in the white-blaze southerly a blotch like swirled foam appeared for a moment at long intervals, as a gannet swung from invisible pinnacles of air to the invisible sea.
Oh, no; I would swoop down the way a gannet does when it sees a fish, and would scoop him up with my bill.
The gannet on which Mr Buckland experimented measured nine inches across the chest, but when inflated it measured fourteen inches.
The gannet can instantaneously extrude all this air from its lungs, bones, and feathers; and this enables it to drop down from a height upon its prey in the sea with amazing force and rapidity.
A gannethad seized upon a fish much larger than his strength enabled him to manage, and was struggling in vain to lift it into the air, when a hawk darted upon them, and striking his talons into the fish, put the gannet to flight.
Prawle had been an office boy when old Gannet was young, and had worked up to a partnership and married Daisy Gannet.
I have sometimes wondered whether old Gannet had a secret and sinister intention, for it is a fact that you can't honestly say you know a woman until you have been to sea with her.
Even now, with old Gannet dead and Prawle retired, and the management paying poor whiskey-soaked young Gannet three thousand a year to keep out of the office, the old skippers and chiefs are still ploughing the ocean for them.
Gould says our Gannet out-boobies the Booby, for he landed on a flat rock and secured five specimens by hand before the rest shuffled over the edge of the cliff and took flight.
There is a large Gannet rookery on Cat Island, east of Flinders Island, where probably 4000 pairs of these fine birds nest each year.
It is worse than any bird of prey for stealing eggs and young birds, for let a gannet or other nesting bird but leave the nest for a moment, and Gulls quickly rob it of its contents.
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