1. Cape gannets in their greeting routine

2. Gannets are denizens of the open ocean.

3. But the gannets of Bempton Cliffs are within easy reach of all.

4. The nyctosaurid Alcione may display adaptations for wing-propelled diving like modern gannets and tropicbirds.

5. Here they would spend ten or more days catching the young gannets which breed on the rock in thousands.

6. ‘Usually you can expect to see great numbers of pelagic birds - gannets, shearwaters, jaegers, storm-petrels, Alcids - that live mainly at sea.’

7. While the darters' lack of many display behaviors is shared with gannets (and that of a few with cormorants), these are all symplesiomorphies that are absent in frigatebirds, tropicbirds and pelicans also.