Diet Overlap

Morus bassanus (Northern Gannet)
Balaenoptera acutorostrata (Minke Whale)

Common Diet

Ammodytes marinus (sand eel)
Clupea harengus (Yawling)
Mallotus villosus (Capelin)
Scomber scombrus (Split)
Sprattus sprattus (Whitebait)

Common Habitat

Cape Cod National Seashore
Dee Estuary/ Aber Dyfrdwy
Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
Forillon National Park
Mingan Archipelago National Park Reserve
Moray Firth
Morecambe Bay
Prince Edward Island National Park
Sefton Coast
St David`s / Ty Ddewi
Terra Nova National Park

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Annual variation in diets, feeding locations and foraging behaviour of gannets in the North Sea: flexibility, consistency and constraint, K. C. Hamer, E. M. Humphreys, S. Garthe, J. Hennicke, G. Peters, D. Grémillet, R. A. Phillips, M. P. Harris, S. Wanless, Mar Ecol Prog Ser 338: 295–305, 2007
♦ 2Diet of minke whales Balaenoptera acutorostrata in Scottish (UK) waters with notes on strandings of this species in Scotland 1992-2002, G.J. Pierce, M.B. Santos, R.J. Reid, I.A.P. Patterson and H.M. Ross, J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. (2004), 84, 1241-1244
♦ 3Flight destinations and foraging behaviour of northern gannets (Sula bassana) preying on a small forage fish in a low-Arctic ecosystem, Stefan Garthea, William A. Montevecchi, Gail K. Davoren, Deep-Sea Research II 54 (2007) 311–320