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Cape gannet
Cape gannet
(Morus capensis)
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Cape gannet on nest with chick
© G. L. Kooyman / Animals Animals
Cape gannet brooding chick in nest
© L Von Hortsten / Animals Animals
Close up of an adult Cape gannet with chick
© Georgette Douwma / naturepl.com
Cape gannet chick
© Peter Pickford / Images of Africa
Cape gannet chick begging for food from adult
© Simon King / naturepl.com
Cape gannet with chick on nest at nest colony
© Georgette Douwma / naturepl.com
Cape gannet chicks
© Peter Pickford / Images of Africa
Juvenile Cape gannets on coast
© Georgette Douwma / naturepl.com
Cape gannets
© M. Watson / www.ardea.com
Close up of a Cape gannet
© Simon King / naturepl.com
Cape gannet preening
© W Wisniewski / www.flpa-images.co.uk
Cape gannet, close up of head
© Sharon Heald / naturepl.com
Cape gannets
© Anne Wertheim / AA / www.osfimages.com
Cape gannet
© Simon King / naturepl.com
Cape gannet, side view
© Pete Oxford / naturepl.com
Cape gannet in flight
© M. Watson / www.ardea.com
Cape gannet in flight, side view
© W Wisniewski / www.flpa-images.co.uk
Cape gannet in flight, view from above
© M Gore / www.flpa-images.co.uk
Cape gannet in flight, view from below
© G. K. Brown / www.ardea.com
Cape gannet in flight
© Peter Scoones / naturepl.com
Cape gannets in flight
© Des & Jen Bartlett/SAL / www.osfimages.com
Cape gannet in dive action
© Rod Haestier / Images of Africa
Immature Cape gannet diving into the sea
© Rod Haestier / Images of Africa
Cape gannet flock diving for fish
© Malcolm Schuyl / www.flpa-images.co.uk
Cape gannets feeding
© Rod Haestier / Images of Africa
Cape gannets feeding at sea
© Rod Haestier / Images of Africa
Cape gannets in the sea
© Rod Haestier / Images of Africa
Cape gannet, having caught a fish
© Rod Haestier / Images of Africa
Cape gannet on sea
© Rod Haestier / Images of Africa
Cape gannet in the sea
© Rod Haestier / Images of Africa
Cape gannet in flight, preparing to land
© Ingrid van den Berg / www.ardea.com
Cape gannet landing, side view
© Ingrid van den Berg / www.ardea.com
Cape gannet landing
© Tony Heald / naturepl.com
Cape gannet landing in colony
© Peter Pickford / Images of Africa
Cape gannet coming in to land at colony
© Gerald Cubitt
Cape gannet coming in to land
© Tony Heald / naturepl.com
Cape gannet 'sky pointing'
© W Wisniewski / www.flpa-images.co.uk
Cape gannet displaying
© Ingrid van den Berg / www.ardea.com
Cape gannet appeasement whilst moving through colony
© Georgette Douwma / naturepl.com
Cape gannet adults in open-beaked aggression
© Ken Preston-Mafham / Premaphotos Wildlife
Cape gannet displaying
© W Wisniewski / www.flpa-images.co.uk
Cape gannets in courtship display
© Georgette Douwma / naturepl.com
Pair of Cape gannets displaying
© W Wisniewski / www.flpa-images.co.uk
Cape gannet pair showing courting behaviour
© Andrew Parkinson / naturepl.com
Cape gannet pair in courtship
© Martin Harvey / www.nhpa.co.uk
Aerial view of a Cape gannet colony
© Simon King / naturepl.com
Cape gannet breeding colony
© Ingrid van den Berg / www.ardea.com
Cape gannet colony
© Peter Bassett / naturepl.com
Cape gannet colony
© Pete Oxford / naturepl.com
Cape gannets in dense nesting colony
© Des & Jen Bartlett/SAL / www.osfimages.com
Collecting guano from Cape gannet breeding colony
© Ken Preston-Mafham / Premaphotos Wildlife
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