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Northern Gannet Archive

Blog: Depth Charges? Not!

Photographer Patrick McLaughlin sent this fabulous photo of gannets dive bombing the ocean for fish.

McLaughlin also wrote about  these powerful, beautiful seagoing birds off our coast and their diving feats:

The gannet is a bird most folks don't know about...and they are very, very cool.

Here is some info on them and photos of them in action.