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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.
Young gannets were historically used as a food source, a tradition still practised in Ness, Scotland, where they are called "guga". Like examples of continued traditional whale harvesting , the modern-day hunting of gannet chicks results in great controversies as to whether it should continue to be given "exemption from the ordinary protection ...
Sula Sgeir is a small, uninhabited Scottish islet in the North Atlantic, 18 kilometres (9 + 1 ⁄ 2 nautical miles) west of Rona.One of the most remote islands of the British Isles, it lies approximately forty nautical miles (seventy kilometres) north of Lewis and is best known for its population of gannets.
Each year 10 men from Ness go out to the island of Sula Sgeir in late August to September for a fortnight to harvest around 2,000 young gannets known locally as Guga. [9] [10] The Guga hunt is a Ness tradition and the bird considered a delicacy. [10]
The IOC World Bird List uses Suliformes as the proposed order name. [10] Within the family itself, three living genera—Sula (boobies, six species), Papasula (Abbott's booby), and Morus (gannets, three species)—are recognized. A 2011 study of multiple genes found Abbott's booby to be basal to all other gannets and boobies, and likely to have ...
This is a list of the bird species recorded in Guam. The avifauna of Guam includes a total of 146 species as of August 2021, according to Bird Checklists of the World . [ 1 ] Of them, eight have been introduced by humans and 32 are rare or accidental . 3 species are endemic , of which one is extinct and two are extinct in the wild though their ...
Lagopus muta pyrenaica – MHNT. The rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) is a medium-sized game bird in the grouse family.It is known simply as the ptarmigan in Europe. It is the official bird for the Canadian territory of Nunavut, [4] where it is known as the aqiggiq (ᐊᕿᒡᒋᖅ), and the official game bird for the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. [5]
For a lone potoo, or a brooding adult with a potential predator close to the nest, the bird attempts to avoid detection by remaining motionless and relying on camouflage. If ineffective, the potoo breaks cover and attempts to intimidate the predator by opening its beak and eyes wide open while vocalizing or simply flies out of reach.