Gannet sentence example

Laura introduced us to some of the seabirds which included a very cool gannet.

gannet colony in the northern hemisphere.

If the wing of a gannet, just shot, be removed and made to flap in what the operator believes to be a strictly vertical downward direction, the tip of the wing, in spite of him, will dart forwards between 2 and 3 ft.

Phaethon, tropic-bird; Sula, gannet; Phalacrocorax, cormorant and Plotus, snake-bird; Fregata, frigate-bird; Pelecanus.

cormorant (q.v.) and gannet as well as the true pelicans, and for a long while these and some other distinct groups, as the snake-birds (q.v.), frigate-birds (q.v.) and tropic-birds (q.v.), which have all the four toes of the foot connected by a web, were regarded as forming a single family, Pelecanidae; but this name has now been restricted to the pelicans only, though all are still usually associated in the suborder Steganopodes of Ciconiiform birds.

coiled tubing well was drilled from the Gannet platform in early 2004.

fixed-wing aircraft carriers, airborne radar was the responsibility of the Fairey Gannet AEW.3 turboprop aircraft.

gannet chicks and adults.

gannet population is in Britain where their numbers are steadily increasing.

gannet numbers were highest over the continental shelf region, where foraging adults dominated.

A superb gannet, guillemots, razorbills, shags, kittiwakes and, of course, a lot of gulls where seen.

THE GANNET is Britain's largest seabird with a wing span of just under two meters.

Despite this, the first coiled tubing well was drilled from the Gannet platform in early 2004.

THE GANNET is Britain 's largest seabird with a wing span of just under two meters.

in the gannet.

Gannet, " Dictionary of Elevations " (1898), and " River Profiles," publications of United States Geological Survey; G.

Gannet, " Forests of the United States"; idem, Both Annual Report, pt.

The sea-birds include a great variety of gulls, guillemots, cormorants, albatrosses (four species), fulmars and petrels, and in the Gulf of St Lawrence the gannet is very abundant.