As you can see from the picture the gannets all look exactly like each other, and there are hundreds & hundreds of them all clumped together in a relatively small space. So the question arises - they fly off to scavenge for food & return to feed their young, but how do they know who is who and where their young and their nesting places are when they return?
As we sat in the bird hide, watching the gannets with great fascination, lots of questions like these arose in my mind. There's a constant activity, with birds flying out, others returning & circling above the masses, making a tremendous amount of noise. These birds are so incredibly programmed to find their way, find their nesting place amongst the multitudes, find their food and so on.
Another interesting point is that each bird needs to consume about 500 - 750 g of fish per day to survive. That's about 2 cups! So they are amazing fishers
and dive down into the waves to spear fish.
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