Gannets, Boobies
Australasian Gannet
Morus serrator
The Australasian Gannet (Morus serrator) is a 2.4 kg ocean-going bird that eats mostly fish and other water animals. Some populations migrate.
- Family
- Gannets, Boobies
- Order
- Suliformes
- Weight
- 2.4 kg
- Habitat
- Marine
- Diet
- Vertebrates, fish and carrion
- Migration
- Partial migrant
- Countries recorded
- 3
Recorded in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa.
Where to see it: Tiritiri Matangi · general (New Zealand); Kaikoura · offshore · Albatross Encounter pelagic (general) (New Zealand); Miranda · main hide/Limeworks (New Zealand); Western Treatment Plant (Australia); Norfolk Island · main island (Norfolk Island).
Photo: Bengt Nyman from Vaxholm, Sweden, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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