Each year the St Kildan people would kill, or harvest, seabirds, including gannets from Boreray and the Stacs. It was a very hard and dangerous job for the men because the birds nest on high cliffs. The dead birds were then shared amongst the community.
They used them for many things. They used their meat for food, their oil for lamps and their feathers to pay the rent. Their wings were even used as a kind of brush to sweep up the ashes from the fire!