gannet

Converse of object

• nest: On a clear day you can see Scare Rocks in Luce Bay, home to thousands of pairs of nesting gannets.
• see: Reports of gannets also seen feeding in these areas is a good indication that herring are in good supply.
• include: Laura introduced us to some of the seabirds which included a very cool gannet.
• pass: From here I drove to the east to Waihi Beach for some sea watching, but only few Australian Gannets passed by.
• watch: Setting up our scopes we were soon watching Gannets of various ages moving off shore.
• record: The main movement of gannets recorded during the incident was along a southwest _ northeast axis from Grassholm ( Ibid.

Preposition: in

• area: There were approximately 400 Gannets in the area at the time.

Adjective modifier

• diving: They are often seen in association with diving gannets feeding on the same fish.
• Australian: From here I drove to the east to Waihi Beach for some sea watching, but only few Australian Gannets passed by.
• northern: Diving depths of northern gannets: acoustic observations of Sula bassana from an autonomous underwater vehicle.
• few: However, aside from a few gannets, we saw little else of interest.
• young: The young gannets tumble off the rock, hopefully learning to fly on the way down in this ultimate school of hard knocks.
• many: They were leaping quite high out of the water at times and many Gannets were diving in the area.

Modifies a noun

• colony: Includes the largest gannet colony in the northern hemisphere.
• chick: Once on the stack, three of the group managed to ring almost 100 gannet chicks and adults.
• nest: Gannets nest only in the north Atlantic mainly on steep, rocky, and often inaccessible islands.
• population: The greater pars of the world's entire gannet population is in Britain where their numbers are steadily increasing.
• number: Northern gannet numbers were highest over the continental shelf region, where foraging adults dominated.

Noun used with modifier

• baby: This ' hunt ' involves the fishermen plucking about 2,000 baby gannets from the cliff faces using long poles.
• sea: Out at sea gannets were passing and then a chough appeared.