Some of the gannets swooped past just three-feet away from Josh. SHETLAND ISLANDS, UK: EPIC action images have captured six-pound gannets soaring over
Some of the gannets swooped past just three-feet away from Josh. SHETLAND ISLANDS, UK: EPIC action images have captured six-pound gannets soaring over the wild Scottish seas in sixty-miles-per-hour winds. One dramatic image featured over 90 Northern gannets resting atop a blustery cliffside, whilst another provided a bird's eye view over the baby blue North Sea. Another hilarious snap showed two peckish birds nabbing another below the beak and on the neck. Photographer, Josh Jaggard (29) from Norwich, UK, took the stunning shots at the Hermaness National Nature Reserve at Haroldswick, Shetland Islands, UK. He used a Nikon D800 and D500 with either a Nikon 200-400mm or 17-35mm lens. Northern gannets can measure up to three-feet long and have a maximum wingspan of 5ft 8in. Northern gannets can live for up to 35 years and data from 2016 reveals that there is an estimated population of 25,580 breeding pairs at Hermaness. Conservative figures from The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) suggest there are at least 1,500,000 of the birds in the world which live predominantly in North America, Europe, and north east Africa. / @josh_jaggard
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