Northern Gannets are members of the booby family (Sulidae) and are commonly found along the NC Outer Banks in the winter.
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Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus)Off Cape Hatteras, Dare Co., NC21 Feb 2009Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus)Off Cape Hatteras, Dare Co., NC21 Feb 2009Adults show black around the face, dull yellowish wash in the head, and clean white plumage with crisp black primary feathers.Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus)Off Cape Hatteras, Dare Co., NC21 Feb 2009This subadult still has mottled black feathers in the tail and underwing.Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus)Off Cape Hatteras, Dare Co., NC21 Feb 2009Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus)Off Cape Hatteras, Dare Co., NC21 Feb 2009Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus)Off Cape Hatteras, Dare Co., NC21 Feb 2009Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus)Off Cape Hatteras, Dare Co., NC21 Feb 2009Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus)Off Cape Hatteras, Dare Co., NC21 Feb 2009Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus)Off Cape Hatteras, Dare Co., NC21 Feb 2009Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus)Off Cape Hatteras, Dare Co., NC21 Feb 2009
Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus)Off Cape Hatteras, NC5 March 2006
Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus)Off Cape Hatteras, Dare Co., NC5 March 2006Northern Gannets have to take a few steps on top of the water to get airborne.Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus)Off Cape Hatteras, Dare Co., NC5 March 2006
Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus)Off Cape Hatteras, Dare Co., NC4 March 2006Adult Nothern Gannets are usually seen as distant white birds offshore with black wingtips and whose overall shape is long and pointed at all 4 tips.
Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus)Off Cape Hatteras, Dare Co., NC18 Feb 2012Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus)Off Cape Hatteras, Dare Co., NC18 Feb 2012Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus)Off Cape Hatteras, Dare Co., NC18 Feb 2012Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus)Off Cape Hatteras, Dare Co., NC18 Feb 2012Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus)Off Cape Hatteras, Dare Co., NC18 Feb 2012Adult on left, immature on right.Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus)Off Cape Hatteras, Dare Co., NC18 Feb 2012One dark immature gannet in the middle of a flock of adults.Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus)Off Cape Hatteras, Dare Co., NC18 Feb 2012Subadult with black secondaries.Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus)Off Cape Hatteras, Dare Co., NC18 Feb 2012Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus)Off Cape Hatteras, Dare Co., NC18 Feb 2012Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus)Off Cape Hatteras, Dare Co., NC18 Feb 2012Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus)Off Cape Hatteras, Dare Co., NC18 Feb 2012
Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus)Off Cape Hatteras, Dare Co., NC20 Feb 2010Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus)Off Cape Hatteras, Dare Co., NC20 Feb 2010Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus)Off Cape Hatteras, Dare Co., NC20 Feb 2010Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus)Off Cape Hatteras, Dare Co., NC20 Feb 2010Large flock of gannets plunge diving on a school of fish.Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus)Off Cape Hatteras, Dare Co., NC20 Feb 2010Virtually all of those white spots are gannets.
