Kōrero: Gannets and boobies

Chick with down (2 o 2)

Chick with down

This one-month-old gannet chick, pictured with an adult, is covered in a fluffy down and growing rapidly. Chicks lose their down feathers during the second and third months as they develop the speckled plumage of the juvenile stage.

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Department of Conservation
Reference: 10042076
Photograph by Dick Veitch

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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

Maggy Wassilieff, 'Gannets and boobies - Gannets: life history and feeding', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/photograph/5831/chick-with-down (accessed 29 March 2024)

He kōrero nā Maggy Wassilieff, i tāngia i te 12 Jun 2006, reviewed & revised 17 Feb 2015