Graceful, powerful and impossible to miss—the northern gannet is the largest seabird on the waters of the North Atlantic. It spends most of its time gliding over open seas and returning to land only to breed. These seabirds, known for their vast and noisy breeding colonies, called gannetries, nest on steep cliffs, remote rocky islands and sea stacks that rise from the ocean.
Northern gannets, Shetland Islands, Scotland
Today in History
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Glastonbury Festival begins
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Eurasian red squirrel, Switzerland
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The citadel in Bonifacio, Southern Corsica, France
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Asteroid Day
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Molokini crater, Maui, Hawaii, USA
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Life on the lake
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Ancient town of Sorano, Tuscany, Italy
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Diwali
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Mothering Sunday
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Tis the season for travel
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Guild houses of Grand-Place, Brussels, Belgium
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Autumnal equinox
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National Moth Week
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Butchart Gardens in Brentwood Bay, British Columbia, Canada
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A grand view
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Happy World Whale Day!
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Waitangi Day in New Zealand
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Where history comes alive
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Pancake Day
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A delta in the Venetian Lagoon, Italy
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Kalalau Beach on the Nā Pali Coast, Kauai, Hawaii, United States
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A future built on the past
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Gemsboks in the savannah, Botswana
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Atlantic spotted dolphin near Santa Maria Island, Azores, Portugal
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Behold the architectural marvel
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Castle Square, Warsaw, Poland
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Northern hawk-owl
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Great North Run
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Great wildebeest migration at Mara River, Kenya
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Remembering D-Day
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