Nearly all of Alderney's 8,000 gannet nests are contaminated with plastic pollution, island conservationists say. As recently as 20 years ago, only small quantities were seen in the nests ...

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.

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.

We couldn’t fail to notice them – indeed, in the 1,000-year-old epic poem Beowulf, the hero refers to the sea as the “ganotes ...