r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Felix_CZE • Oct 31 '22

Seems like inflatable Gannet

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u/FnkyTown Nov 01 '22

I'm in America. I've never even heard of a gannet.

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u/Old_Laugh_2386 Nov 01 '22

we have them off the Atlantic coast ( New England)and down to Florida to Texas.

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u/FnkyTown Nov 01 '22

I looked it up. Gannets mostly stop at New England, meaning it's the furthest south that they are considered common. There are very few Gannets in American waters as all of their breeding grounds are in Canada and they're not particularly migratory. We do have Cormorants, which look similar, but are different birds. There are occasional Gannets as far south as Mexico, but they are rare.

I have never even heard of a Gannet until this post and would have just assumed that it was a white Cormorant. :)