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Kōrero: Gannets and boobies

Gannet in flight

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Gannet in flight

With a streamlined body and broad wingspan, gannets are powerful and graceful flyers. This bird is flying above the gannet colony at Farewell Spit.

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by Doug Anderson

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Maggy Wassilieff, Gannets and boobies – Gannets: description and habitat, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/6535/gannet-in-flight (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Maggy Wassilieff, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009.