Alderney has more than 1% of the global Northern Gannet population nesting within ... to capture a series of photographs, with each nest being manually counted by a team of volunteer ecologists.

the hero refers to the sea as the “ganotes bæth”, or gannet’s bath. Even then, gannets were a metaphor for a heroic creature ...

seeking a partner and a nest of their own. To get a site, two males will fight, locking bills and stabbing faces, for up to an hour. When the clash ends, one gannet leaves; the other has a home.

Nigel (pictured with two replica birds) won the hearts of visitors to the island Nigel "no mates", a lonely New Zealand gannet who lived ... carefully construct a nest from seaweed and twigs ...