tags: nature, birds, gannet, Morus serrator, technology, BBC, streaming video
Steve Leonard and a group of conservationists attach tiny gadgets to the feathers of a Gannet, Morus serrator, to learn how they eat and fly out in the deep oceans. Great short video from BBC wildlife show Animal Camera.
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tags: Northern Gannet, Morus bassanus,
Seabirds are undeniably cool. They often look neat, they often have very cool names (witness such examples as Macronectes, Oceanodroma and Cerorhinca), and their biology is often amazing.
I was able to watch these guys in action a few years back, on a pelagic trip off the coast of Bretagne (Les Sept-Ãles). The colony contained an estimated 40,000 birds, not counting the chicks...
Watching them dive knife-like into the water was quite awe-inspiring...