- Leach's petrels,
common shag, and black-legged kittiwakes.
There is a
gannetry on Roaireim. From the late
Middle Ages on,
Lewismen regularly raided these...
-
largest colony in Ireland,
hosting around 30,000
breeding pairs.
Known as a
gannetry before 1700,
human impact had
reduced the po****tion to 30
pairs by 1880...
- It was
known traditionally in
Scots as a "solan goose". As on
other gannetries, such as St Kilda, the
birds were
harvested for
their eggs and the flesh...
- 2018.
Retrieved 21 July 2018. Hawkins, J.M. (1988). "The
Farewell Spit
gannetry – a new sea
level colony" (PDF). Notornis. 35: 249–60.
Archived (PDF) from...
-
upwards of 40,000
pairs of
northern gannets and is the
largest single rock
gannetry in the world. The bird's
scientific name
Morus b********,
derives from the...
- 200,000
nesting seabirds,
including one of only two
mainland British gannetries, are the most
notable biological feature.
Flamborough Head The headland...
- Bird
Notes 2: 71–72. 1947
Contributions to the
gannet census. VII. New
gannetry off
Karaka Point. VIII.
Gannets of the
Three Kings. New
Zealand Bird Notes...
- more than 150,000
nesting northern gannets and is the
largest single rock
gannetry in the world. When
viewed from the
mainland much of the rock
looks white...
- home to the region's only
colony of
Australasian gannets. The site of the
gannetry has been
identified as an
Important Bird Area by
BirdLife International...
- ISBN 9780319228128. Stewart,
Malcolm (1
February 1938), "Notes on the
Gannetries of Sule
Stack and Sula Sgeir" (PDF),
British Birds, 31 (9),
Witherby &...
