Gannet Birds - A Mated Pair - coloring page

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Today's second post is here and it is of the large sea-bird called a Gannet.

 This may be my last post for a while.  

We are about to move out of our rental house and because of construction delays our new home will not be completed for a few weeks yet.  Technically the home will belong to our daughter and her husband and we get the walk-in basement apartment.  

So we are going to visit and stay with family members here in Utah, in Wyoming, and in Nevada.  

Technically we will be homeless... but not in a desperate situation.   

If we can get connected to the internet and use our relatives' computer scanner/printer then we can post on this blog.  But we have no guarantee that we will be able to do that.  

I will definitely be posting again when we are in our new house sometime in late August or early September.  I apologize for the break in my posts.  

Gannets - Mated Pair

Gannets are very large seabirds with a wingspan of around 6.6 feet or about 2 meters.  Gannets will dive from a high height into the ocean after prey like squid and fish.  Blue-footed Boobies do this too.  We observed it in the Galapagos Islands.  The Northern Gannet is the largest seabird in the North Atlantic.  They are mostly white with yellowish heads.  

Gannets mate for life but live separately between mating seasons until they meet and get reacquainted at the "gannetry."  That is the name for the breeding colony.  A large gannetry may have thousands of breeding pairs of Gannets.  

NOTE:  This drawing, in printable form, can be found by clicking on the button labeled Birds or Animals.  Then scroll down because the new drawings are at the bottom of the lists.