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
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Tibetan New Year
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International Whale Shark Day
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Village of Oia in Santorini, Greece
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World Space Week begins
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Chilling out on an ice floe
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City Hall, London, England
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Groundhog Day
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National Cherry Blossom Festival, Washington, DC, United States
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International Cheetah Day
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The fishing village of Reine, Norway
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World Space Week
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South Downs Dark Skies Festival
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A one-of-a-kind splash
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Aspens near Marble, Colorado, USA
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World Wildlife Day
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Methoni Castle, Messinia, Greece
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A bevy of buzzers
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Autumnal equinox
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Mount Segla, Senja Island, Norway
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Antarctica Day
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Red lechwe, Okavango Delta, Botswana
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Þorrablót, Icelandic midwinter festival
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International Womens Day
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A legend sprung from the ground
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