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Feeding the young

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Feeding the young

Small fish such as pilchards, anchovies and jack mackerel make up the bulk of a young gannet’s diet. Here an adult bird is regurgitating its catch into the juvenile’s mouth.

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Maggy Wassilieff, Gannets and boobies – Gannets: life history and feeding, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/5836/feeding-the-young (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Maggy Wassilieff, published 2 March 2009.