As we enter the last month of 2018, our team is already eager to start a new field season in beautiful #Newfoundland! Here is one of our highlights for summer 2018 with over a 100 humpback whales and thousands of seabirds feeding on capelin near our study sites off the NE coast! pic.twitter.com/DHNN7DlRoe
— Davoren Lab (@DavorenLab) December 2, 2018
I’ll be the first to admit I know very little about birds. Looking at a checklist of birds of Newfoundland, and knowing the impressiveness of gannets diving, I am wondering if these are northern gannets (Morus bassanus) . BBC Earth also has superb video fo these dive bombers.
I think Eric Moreno sums up nicely.
WOW… I thought this was @USNavy @RoyalNavy machine gun fire striking the surface….
nope just thousands of diving birds striking the water for some delicious capelin. @DrAndrewThaler @DrCraigMc @LaurelCoons https://t.co/vjcVqSeuWs
— Eric Moreno (@KingNeptune767) December 3, 2018
