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Desperate to satisfy the customer, the proprietor tears the page about the gannet out of the book, only for the customer then to refuse to buy it because it is damaged. [13] [14] The sketch is reprised in Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album, where the customer (Graham Chapman) says he does not like the gannet because "they wet their nests."
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The Swiss naturalist Conrad Gessner gave the northern gannet the name Anser bassanus or scoticus in the 16th century, and noted that the Scots called it a solendguse. [4] The former name was also used by the English naturalist Francis Willughby in the 17th century; the species was known to him from a colony in the Firth of Forth and from a stray bird that was found near Coleshill, Warwickshire.
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Nigel (died 2018) was an Australasian gannet [1] who lived on Mana Island, off the coast of the city of Porirua in New Zealand. For most of his time there he was the only gannet on the island, and for this reason was nicknamed "no mates" Nigel and the "world's loneliest seabird".
Cape gannet landing Morus capensis – MHNT Cape gannet colony, Bird Island, Lambert's Bay, South Africa. Cape gannets are powerful fliers, using mainly a flap-gliding technique, which is more energy consuming than the dynamic-soaring favoured by albatrosses. As all Sulids, they are fish-eating birds that plunge-dive from considerable height.
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It is also known as Pacific gannet [8] and, in Australia, as Australian gannet, diver (from its plunge-diving), booby, or solan goose. [4] In New Zealand it is also known by the Māori name tākapu or tākupu, [9] a word of wider Polynesian origin for a gannet or booby. [10] The Sulidae, the gannets and boobies, appeared about 30 million years ...