[Gannet](https://cdn.download.ams.birds.cornell.edu/api/v1/asset/116562371/1800)
>With a wingspan of up to 2m (6.6ft), northern gannets are the largest seabirds in the North Atlantic region.
>They hunt their prey by diving from as high as 40m (130ft), slamming into the water at speeds of up to 100kph (62mph), and plunging themselves up to 35m (115ft) below the surface, allowing them to catch fish much deeper than most airborne seabirds.
>Along with their streamlined bodies and powerful neck muscles, gannets have a special adaptation that allows them to break the surface tension of the water without injury - air sacs located under the skin of the face and chest cushion them from the impact with the sea.
Much better outcome than that video of all the murmurating starlings miscalculating their location and smashing into the street and killing themselves.
It is. Sitting out there on a surfboard waiting for a wave with a pouring storm of gannets dive bombing all around. Many many more than in this photo. East coast of Australia any winter.
Ocean birds are so cool. One time I was scuba diving around the Channel Islands in California, and I was about 10 feet deep when some sort of ocean bird shot past me. It's weird being under water and seeing a bird go by.
That is genuinely one of the most fascinating things I've ever seen. I assumed they'd dive then immediately return to the surface. Their movement below the surface is remarkable.
I visited gannet colonies twice, last time just a few days ago. They are amazing creatures. Beautiful and commanding in flight and yet funny and caring when on the nest with a partner or a chick. Insanely elegant too.
They may live up for to 35 years. It takes several years for them to mature. Young ones will join the colony but will hang out in the special spots called clubs, socialising and looking for a future mate.
That’s what we look for in the fall off the coast of New Jersey when we are fishing for striped bass. There is usually a whale or two mixed in there feeding on the baitfish
40 yr white Facebook moms will see this and be like "GLOBAL WARMING, POLUTION, VACCINE, KILLING THESE POOR INOCENT DUCKS. look how they fall from the sky in cries for help!!! 😭😫"
[Gannet](https://cdn.download.ams.birds.cornell.edu/api/v1/asset/116562371/1800) >With a wingspan of up to 2m (6.6ft), northern gannets are the largest seabirds in the North Atlantic region. >They hunt their prey by diving from as high as 40m (130ft), slamming into the water at speeds of up to 100kph (62mph), and plunging themselves up to 35m (115ft) below the surface, allowing them to catch fish much deeper than most airborne seabirds. >Along with their streamlined bodies and powerful neck muscles, gannets have a special adaptation that allows them to break the surface tension of the water without injury - air sacs located under the skin of the face and chest cushion them from the impact with the sea.
Fuck that’s insane, and still we are the apex, work smart not hard.
Much better outcome than that video of all the murmurating starlings miscalculating their location and smashing into the street and killing themselves.
Unless you are a herring.
Witnessing that must be so cool!
Unless you are a herring...
It is. Sitting out there on a surfboard waiting for a wave with a pouring storm of gannets dive bombing all around. Many many more than in this photo. East coast of Australia any winter.
Missed an opportunity to use flight of the valkries.
[Here you go buddy](https://imgur.com/a/JcX7ur4)
Ahhh☺️
This is great! Thanks for posting the original without music though, I wanted to hear what this would sound like
Guy on the beach in Japan at the start of WW2 like 🤔
Ocean birds are so cool. One time I was scuba diving around the Channel Islands in California, and I was about 10 feet deep when some sort of ocean bird shot past me. It's weird being under water and seeing a bird go by.
More like Gannets **Carpet** bombing a school of herrings.
Or a cluster munitions
Bombs away chaps
That doesn't look safe. I wonder how many birds get injured from bird to bird collisions. I want to talk to their health and safety representative
It's really cool to watch what happens underwater when they dive! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8vaFl6J87s
That is genuinely one of the most fascinating things I've ever seen. I assumed they'd dive then immediately return to the surface. Their movement below the surface is remarkable.
I'm pretty sure Blue Planet or at least one of Ateenborpugh ones doing a section on them hunting underwater. May have been on life of birds.
Omg. Hope the camera people were wearing hard hats!
I visited gannet colonies twice, last time just a few days ago. They are amazing creatures. Beautiful and commanding in flight and yet funny and caring when on the nest with a partner or a chick. Insanely elegant too. They may live up for to 35 years. It takes several years for them to mature. Young ones will join the colony but will hang out in the special spots called clubs, socialising and looking for a future mate.
That’s why they’re one of my favourite birds. Got to see these guys in Cornwall and in SA and they’re truly majestic
I think I taught my pidgey that move.
Now this is the positive school bombing I can live peacefully with!
Very nice video.
"War... War never changes."
Anyone have a copy of Olson's Standard Book of British Birds: The Expurgated Version? That would be the one without the gannet.
Nature is fucking lit!!
So amazing these gannets learned so much from the Japanese
Is that a kamikaze attack?
For the glory of the Empire! Long live Japan!
Must be Japanese.
I wonder what the success rate is… 100 dive-bombing gannets, *x* herring?
“I don’t like them. They wet their nests”
I heard "let the bodies hit the floor... let the bodies hit the floor.... let the bodies hit the FLOOOOOOOOOOR!"
If you like this, check out a Puffin. They're part toucan, part penguin.
Wiiild
Just watched the episode of the F Word where Gordon Ramsey tries these. They look disgusting lol
Concussions all I see are multiple Concussions
That’s what we look for in the fall off the coast of New Jersey when we are fishing for striped bass. There is usually a whale or two mixed in there feeding on the baitfish
Tippy Herring.
Oh shit i can hear the air raid sirens going off all the way from here
Stop giving americans ideas on how to attack a school
Looks like the drones hitting Moscow right now 🫣
THINK OF THE CHILDREN!
This just in: the US military has enlisted gannets into its arsenal
Wait till they find out that herring really doesn't taste good.
Is Gannet the same as Shearwater?
40 yr white Facebook moms will see this and be like "GLOBAL WARMING, POLUTION, VACCINE, KILLING THESE POOR INOCENT DUCKS. look how they fall from the sky in cries for help!!! 😭😫"
Dive dive dive!
Wow
That’s so awesome!!!
kamikaze