Gone fishing: Gannet makes record breaking 1,700-mile trip

Week-long foraging trip from the Channel Islands to Scandinavian waters and back is the longest recorded for the species, conservationists sayA gannet has returned home after a fishing trip of almost 1,700 miles (2,700 km), the longest recorded for the species, conservationists said.Cosmo, a northern gannet which lives on Alderney in the Channel Islands, made the foraging trip up the English Channel, across the North Sea and into Scandinavian waters - and back - in less than a week. Continue rea