Gannets

The Gannets are a far better team than is supposed; their speed was a bit too much for us.

Trullion: Alastor 2262 Vance, Jack 1973

"The Gannets were a part-time proposition; I'm surprised the team held together as well as it did.

Trullion: Alastor 2262 Vance, Jack 1973

Gannets and terns eat almost exclusively live fish that they catch by plunging; depleting schools of fishes like herring or sand-lance can crucially diminish their food supply.

Carl Safina: Seabirds: The Other Seafood Lovers Carl Safina 2012

In fact, one year prior to the Treasure oil spill, it was used successfully during the rescue of 300 oiled Cape Gannets.

The Great Penguin Rescue Dyan DeNapoli 2010

Their diving reminded me of lines by the poet Norman MacCaig: "Gannets fall like the heads of tridents/Bombarding the green silk water."

Country diary: Burghead, Scotland 2010

She called me and Merina “The Gannets” because we were always starving and scrounging for food.

Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

She called me and Merina “The Gannets” because we were always starving and scrounging for food.

Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

At the end of the break the twins from the end of our road whose father in the Fleet Air Arm we knew flew in Gannets where first in line to go back in.

Archive 2006-09-01 Man in a Shed 2006

At the end of the break the twins from the end of our road whose father in the Fleet Air Arm we knew flew in Gannets where first in line to go back in.

The loss of Nimrod air personnel in Afghanistan and cost to the families. Man in a Shed 2006

The Voulash Gannets were a young team lacking all reputation; the players seemed striplings.

Trullion: Alastor 2262 Vance, Jack 1973