#cape gannet

[todaysbird]

the cape gannet is a large member of the gannet family (sulidae) found only on six islands off the coast of southern africa. this species plunge-dives for their food; their diet is made up of almost entirely fish, along with other prey found in the water. they are known for their distinctive yellow crown and blue bill. this is a social bird that gathers in large flocks frequently. while they aren’t known to mate for life, cape gannets may stay with the same mate for several breeding seasons. the cape gannet is currently listed as endangered by the iucn.

[alonglistofbirds]

[2043/11056] Cape gannet - Morus capensis

Order: Suliformes Family: Sulidae (gannets and boobys) Genus: Morus (gannets)

Photo credit: Gareth Pellas via Macaulay Library

[herpsandbirds]

Cape Gannets (Morus capensis), diving for fish, family Sulidae, Wild Coast, Eastern Cape, South Africa

ENDANGERED.

photograph by Allen Walke

[beni75]

Photos and texts: @thomaspeschak

1-. A curious gray whale exhales almost directly into my camera

2-. A curious juvenile gray whale vigorously exhales and speeds past my camera in Mexico's San Ignacio Lagoon

3-. A Humpback whales breaches in the North Pacific Ocean off Canada's Great Bear Rainforest

4-. A dusky shark charges through a baitball of sardines

5-. y 6-. A whale sharks swins in shallow water in La Paz Bay, Baja California Sur

7-. A reef manta ray feeds on a plankton patch by barrel rolling over and over again in the same spot, not unlike a puppy chasings its own tail

8-. A reef manta ray feeds along the drop off at D'Arros Island an St. Joseph Atoll. Seychelles

9-. African peguins

10-. A endemic Socotra cormorant comes in to land on a roosting rock deep within the Fjords of Oman's Musandam Peninsula (2012)

11-. African peguins shelter and nest in decaying building long abandoned b the guano industry on Namibia's Halifax Island

12-. At Aldabra atoll green sea turtles often rest for hours on the sandy seabed between coral outcrops

13-. Blacktip reef sharks inspect the hull of our boat on Aldabra's tidal flats. Seychelles

14-. Blacktip reef sharks patrol the drop off where D'Arros Island's coral reef descendes into deeper water

15-. Cape fur seals surf Altantic swell in the Table Mountain Marine Protected Area

16-. Cape Gannet colony on Bird island bathed by lightening and the beam of the lighthouse

17-. The hunt begins at dusk and continuous deep into the night

18-. A curious gray whale swins upside down beneath our boat in Mexico's San Ignacio Lagoon

19-. A venomous lionfish hunts baitfish in Mozambique's Ponta do Ouro marine reserve, by @thomaspeschak

20-. A salmon leaps high into the air to clear a raging waterfall

21-. A wild rocky point just out into the North Pacific Ocean

22-. A large potato grouper hunts amongst schools of baitfish that seasonally drape southern Mozambique's reefs

23-. Dolphins of Indo pacific

[mutant-distraction]

📷Cape gannets take the plunge to reach what is left of a bait ball of anchovy. Wild Coast, Eastern Cape, South Africa. © Allen Walker

[birdusannus]

4/14: cape cod?!

we wound our way to the very tippy-top of cape cod , MA in search of seabirds-- and seabirds we found! we spent more than four hours and walked more than four miles total through sand and seawater to find a bunch of cool species, many of which were lifers for me!

Bird 67: a Belted Kingfisher was perched in a marshy area not quite at the seashore.

Bird 68: Surf Scoters were floating out on the water, mixed in with Black and White-winged Scoters!

Bird 69: We spotted a few Piping Plovers running up and down the shoreline-- they were so cute!

Bird 70: Razorbill; these fellas were far off shore and hard to find, but we saw them eventually.

Bird 71: Laughing Gulls were- well, laughing! I think their black heads are very striking.

Bird 72: Ring-billed Gull

Bird 73: Great Black-backed Gull

Bird 74: Glaucous Gull; we saw at least one for certain. I'm awful at identifying my gulls, but I learned that GLGUs are large, chunky, and have all-white wingtips.

Bird 75: Iceland Gull; still not sure how to ID these guys, to be honest...

Bird 76: Pacific Loon; we spent most of our time searching for this bird specifically. The water was full of COLO and RTLO, but seeing as MA is on the Atlantic, PALO are understandably rare. We sorted through winter plumage birds for hours, knowing PALO were present from other birders we came across. We finally ID'd a winter plumage bird based on its narrow beak (relative to a conveniently placed nearby Common) and chinstrap... it was such an exciting moment when we finally got it!

Bird 77: Northern Gannet; there were dozens, if not hundreds, of these guys close to shore. They were gorgeous, bright white with stark black wingtips. I could have watched them gracefully arc in the air before plunging into the water for hours!

Bird 78: Bufflehead; sitting on a lake near the seashore!

[mybeingthere]

Sculptural - Gannets (Fou de Bassan)

The northern gannet (Morus bassanus) is a seabird, the largest species of the gannet family, Sulidae. It is native to the coasts of the Atlantic Ocean, breeding in Western Europe and Northeastern North America. It is the largest seabird in the northern Atlantic.

Gannet, Photo by Dean Eades.

Photos - Fou de bassan - Northern Gannet - Michel Lamarche.

Northern gannets on the Saltee Islands, Ireland © Bart Breet/Minden Pictures

https://www.istockphoto.com/de/fotos/gannet-bird

Scott Grant, Northern Gannet Tight Portrait. Cape St. Mary's Ecological Reserve.

[mrultra100]

One lil' bit of paleoart to close off the month with, and I'm really happy with how this one turned out. As for the colors, I used a bit of inspiration from cape gannets. They're both sea birds (Or, in Rhamphorhynchus's case, a pterosaur), so it works.

[kcinpa]

northern gannets at Cape St. Mary's Ecological Reserve, Newfoundland

[lost-lycaon]

On sea, the Cape is one of the most productive regions in the world, as nutrients brought by the Agulhas and Benguela currents clash in well oxygenated waters. Upwelling, caused by the constant wind blowing warm surface waters out to sea and replaced up upwelling cold water, brings up even more nutrients from the ocean depths. As a result, the seas are a riot of life with kelp forests, seals, crayfish, sharks, and several whale species. Bird life is especially diverse, particularly those that hunt fish. Cape gannets, kelp gulls, various cormorants, albatross, and the critically endangered African Penguin call the Western Cape home.

[manwalksintobar]

Black Woman (Mujer Negra) // Nancy Morejón

Still I smell the foam of the sea which they made me cross.  The night, I cannot remember it.  Not even the ocean itself could remember it.  But I do not forget the first gannet I made out.  High, the clouds, like innocent eyewitnesses.  Perhaps I have not forgotten either my lost coast, or my ancestral tongue.  They left me here and here I have lived.  And because I worked like a beast, here I was born again, And I sought to rely on epic story of the Mandinga after epic story.

                                     I rebelled.

His Honour bought me in a square,  I embroidered His Honour’s coat and gave birth to a son for him.  My son had no name  And His Honour, he died at the hands of an impeccable English lord.

                                  I walked.

This is the land in which I suffered beatings and floggings.  I rowed the length of all its rivers.  Under its sun I sowed, I reaped and I did not eat the harvests.  For a house I had a shack.  I myself brought stones to build it, but I sang to the natural beat of the national birds.

                                 I rose up.

In this same land I touched the humid blood  and the rotted bones of many others,  brought to it, or not, the same as I.  By then I did not imagine the way to Guinea any more.  Was it to Guinea? To Benin? Was it to Madagascar? Or to Cape Verde?

                               I worked much harder.

I laid better foundations for my millennial song and my hope. Here I built my world.

                               I went off to the mountains.

My real independence was the Palenque and I rode among the troops of Maceo. Only a century later,  together with my descendants,  from a blue mountain,  I came down from the Sierra. to put an end to capitalists and usurers,  to generals and the bourgeoisie.  Now I am: Only today do we have and create.  Nothing is outside our reach.  Ours the land.  Ours the sea and the sky.  Ours magic and the chimera.  My equals, here I watch them dance  around the tree we planted for communism.  Its prodigious wood already resounds.

(translated from the Spanish by Jean Andrews)

[rowanlanecorner]

Jay looks back at the raven-haired man, studying him.

Was she seriously not able to recognize the criminal because he wasn't wearing the stupid domino mask?!

Pixamena giggles awkwardly, standing from her chair. "Excuse him, he's not used to fan interactions. I'll, um, get some water while you two chat."

Jay wants to scream as he watches his partner walk away, cluelessly leaving him alone with an incredibly strong supervillain.

He turns back to face the man, waiting for the inevitable attack. But it never comes.

"Can you—can you sign this for me?" The villain asks, presenting a T-shirt to the hero.

Cautiously, Jay picks up a sharpie. "Ah, sure. Who should I make it out to...?"

"Gannet," the man smiles.

Robotically, Jay signs the T-shirt, leaving a corny "Keep being a hero, Gannet!"

[upsettispaghettivulture]

Amon Azur, The Holy Scythe, wielding the Shrike's Branch

I've been on a seabird kick lately, the Cape Gannet has some cool looking markings, reminds me of a dollar store skeleton lol, had to make a baddie out of it

[justsomehibird]

bird every name. Didn't think so sweatie

Caatinga antwren

Caatinga cacholote

Caatinga parakeet

Caatinga puffbird

Cabanis's bunting

Cabanis's greenbul

Cabanis's ground sparrow

Cabanis's seedeater

Cabanis's spinetail

Cabanis's wren

Cabot's tern

Cabot's tragopan

Cachar bulbul

Cachar wedge-billed babbler

Cackling goose

Cactus canastero

Cactus wren

Caica parrot

Calandra lark

Calayan rail

California condor

California gnatcatcher

California gull

California quail

California scrub jay

California thrasher

California towhee

Calliope hummingbird

Cambodian laughingthrush

Cambodian tailorbird

Cameroon greenbul

Cameroon indigobird

Cameroon olive greenbul

Cameroon olive pigeon

Cameroon sunbird

Camiguin hanging parrot

Camiguin hawk-owl

Campbell albatross

Campbell shag

Campbell teal

Campbell's fairywren

Campina thrush

Campo flicker

Campo miner

Campo troupial

Canada goose

Canada jay

Canada warbler

Canary flyrobin

Canary Islands chiffchaff

Canary Islands oystercatcher

Canary Islands stonechat

Canary white-eye

Canebrake groundcreeper

Canebrake wren

Canivet's emerald

Canvasback

Canyon canastero

Canyon towhee

Canyon wren

Cape Barren goose

Cape batis

Cape bulbul

Cape bunting

Cape canary

Cape clapper lark

Cape cormorant

Cape crow

Cape eagle-owl

Cape gannet

Cape grassbird

Cape long-billed lark

Cape longclaw

Cape May warbler

Cape parrot

Cape penduline tit

Cape petrel

Cape robin-chat

Cape rock thrush

Cape rockjumper

Cape shoveler

Cape siskin

Cape sparrow

Cape spurfowl

Cape starling

Cape sugarbird

Cape teal

Cape Verde buzzard

Cape Verde shearwater

Cape Verde storm petrel

Cape Verde swift

Cape Verde warbler

Cape vulture

Cape wagtail

Cape weaver

[jeanhm]

Bonavista peninsula

Onwards today to the Bonavista peninsula with the intention of getting to the Cape itself where John Cabot is supposed to have landed. On the way we stopped at Ellison to see the puffins but we didn't see any there just razorbills and gannets. At the lighthouse however, we did manage to find puffins as well as a pretty impressive lighthouse itself. There was also a monument to John Cabot. Then it was onwards to our stop in Trinity which is where the Poole/Newfoundland fishing trade was based. I am super excited about looking around this historic settlement tomorrow.

[mutant-distraction]

Eric Hillyard

Gannets

Cape St Marys NI Canada 2003