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Kōrero: Lizards

Gannet chick and lizards

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Gannet chick and lizards

Skinks and geckos enjoy a meal of regurgitated fish, left for this gannet chick on the Poor Knights Islands by its parents. Offshore islands often have a high density of lizards, because they lack introduced mammalian predators. Many of New Zealand’s lizard species have become extinct on the mainland and live only on island refuges.

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Department of Conservation

Reference: 10045104

by Rod Morris

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Kerry-Jayne Wilson, Lizards – Lizards in their environment, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/13528/gannet-chick-and-lizards (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Kerry-Jayne Wilson, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009, updated 1 March 2014.