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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the gannets of Bempton Cliffs are within easy reach of all.
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Far out to sea lies the gannet colony of Grassholm.
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Fulmars, gannets and an occasional storm petrel performed aerobatics in our wake.
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Here they would spend ten or more days catching the young gannets which breed on the rock in thousands.
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In spring those cliffs are alive with auks and gulls, and my favourite bird, the gannet .
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Then an immature gannet came into view away out at sea, a huge bird, still in mottled dark brown plumage.
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This applies mainly to the opportunist feeders like gulls, fulmars, skuas and to some extent gannets.
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Young gannets are brown, very much like young seagulls, and have white cheeks.