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  The Australasian Gannet (Morus serrator), also known as Australian gannet and Tākapu, is a large seabird of the gannet family Sulidae. Adults are mostly white, with black flight feathers at the wingtips and lining the trailing edge of the wing. The central tail feathers are also black. The head is yellow, with a pale blue-grey bill edged in black, and blue-rimmed eyes. Young birds have mottled plumage in their first year, dark above and light below. The head is an intermediate mottled grey, with a dark bill. The birds gradually acquire more white in subsequent seasons until they reach maturity after five years. Their breeding habitat is on islands and the coast of New Zealand, Victoria and Tasmania, with 87% of the adult population in New Zealand. They normally nest in large colonies on coastal islands. In New Zealand there are colonies of over 10,000 breeding pairs each at Three Kings Islands, Whakaari / White Island and Gannet Island. There is a large protected colony on the mainland at Cape Kidnappers (6,500 pairs). There are also mainland colonies at Muriwai and Farewell Spit, as well as numerous other island colonies. Gannet pairs may remain together over several seasons. They perform elaborate greeting rituals at the nest, stretching their bills and necks skywards and gently tapping bills together. The adults mainly stay close to colonies, whilst the younger birds disperse. These birds are plunge divers and spectacular fishers, plunging into the ocean at high speed. They mainly eat squid and forage fish which school near the surface. It has the same colours and similar appearance to the northern gannet. Numbers of Australasian gannet have been increasing since 1950, although some colonies have disappeared and others have decreased in size.  Range map from wikipedia
Listen to the Australasian Gannet
Sound from www.xeno-canto.org
 Conservation status
 Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2.
International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Sighted: (Date of first photo that I could use) 27 October 2017 Location: Muriwai Gannet Colony  Australasian Gannet - Morus serrator - 27 October 2017 - Muriwai Gannet Colony
 Australasian Gannet - Morus serrator - 27 October 2017 - Muriwai Gannet Colony
 Australasian Gannet - Morus serrator - 27 October 2017 - Muriwai Gannet Colony
 Australasian Gannet - Morus serrator - 27 October 2017 - Muriwai Gannet Colony
 Australasian Gannet - Morus serrator - 27 October 2017 - Muriwai Gannet Colony
 Australasian Gannet - Morus serrator - 28 October 2017 - Hauraki Gulf Marine Park
 Australasian Gannet - Morus serrator - 28 October 2017 - Hauraki Gulf Marine Park
 Australasian Gannet - Morus serrator - 28 October 2017 - Hauraki Gulf Marine Park
 Australasian Gannet - Morus serrator - 28 October 2017 - Hauraki Gulf Marine Park
 Australasian Gannet - Morus serrator - 29 October 2017 - Muriwai Gannet Colony
 Australasian Gannet - Morus serrator - 29 October 2017 - Muriwai Gannet Colony
 Australasian Gannet - Morus serrator - 29 October 2017 - Muriwai Gannet Colony
 Australasian Gannet - Morus serrator - 29 October 2017 - Muriwai Gannet Colony
 Australasian Gannet - Morus serrator - 29 October 2017 - Muriwai Gannet Colony
 Australasian Gannet - Morus serrator - 29 October 2017 - Muriwai Gannet Colony
 Australasian Gannet - Morus serrator - 29 October 2017 - Muriwai Gannet Colony
 Australasian Gannet - Morus serrator - 29 October 2017 - Muriwai Gannet Colony
 Australasian Gannet - Morus serrator - 29 October 2017 - Muriwai Gannet Colony
 Australasian Gannet - Morus serrator - 29 October 2017 - Muriwai Gannet Colony
 Australasian Gannet - Morus serrator - 29 October 2017 - Muriwai Gannet Colony
 Australasian Gannet - Morus serrator - 29 October 2017 - Muriwai Gannet Colony
Can you see the egg?
 Australasian Gannet - Morus serrator - 29 October 2017 - Muriwai Gannet Colony
 Australasian Gannet - Morus serrator - 29 October 2017 - Muriwai Gannet Colony
 Australasian Gannet - Morus serrator - 29 October 2017 - Muriwai Gannet Colony
 Australasian Gannet - Morus serrator - 29 October 2017 - Muriwai Gannet Colony
 Australasian Gannet - Morus serrator - 29 October 2017 - Muriwai Gannet Colony
Mom or Dad is coming in for landing after having been at sea to fish
 Australasian Gannet - Morus serrator - 29 October 2017 - Muriwai Gannet Colony
Mom or Dad is saying HELLO and GOOD BYE before on of them take off to catch fich as they take turns sitting on the eggs
 Australasian Gannet - Morus serrator - 29 October 2017 - Muriwai Gannet Colony
 Australasian Gannet - Morus serrator - 29 October 2017 - Muriwai Gannet Colony
Some of them already have the baby
 Australasian Gannet - Morus serrator - 29 October 2017 - Muriwai Gannet Colony
Some of them already have the baby
 Australasian Gannet - Morus serrator - 29 October 2017 - Muriwai Gannet Colony
 Australasian Gannet - Morus serrator - 29 October 2017 - Muriwai Gannet Colony
 Australasian Gannet - Morus serrator - 29 October 2017 - Muriwai Gannet Colony
 Australasian Gannet - Morus serrator - 29 October 2017 - Muriwai Gannet Colony
 Australasian Gannet - Morus serrator - 29 October 2017 - Muriwai Gannet Colony
 Australasian Gannet - Morus serrator - 29 October 2017 - Muriwai Gannet Colony
 Australasian Gannet - Morus serrator - 29 October 2017 - Muriwai Gannet Colony
 Australasian Gannet - Morus serrator - 29 October 2017 - Muriwai Gannet Colony
 Australasian Gannet - Morus serrator - 29 October 2017 - Muriwai Gannet Colony
 Australasian Gannet - Morus serrator - 29 October 2017 - Muriwai Gannet Colony
Saying “HELLO” to each other
 Australasian Gannet - Morus serrator - 29 October 2017 - Muriwai Gannet Colony
 Australasian Gannet - Morus serrator - 29 October 2017 - Muriwai Gannet Colony
 Australasian Gannet - Morus serrator - 29 October 2017 - Muriwai Gannet Colony
 Australasian Gannet - Morus serrator - 29 October 2017 - Muriwai Gannet Colony
Coming home from the fishing tour
 Australasian Gannet - Morus serrator - 29 October 2017 - Muriwai Gannet Colony
Saying “HELLO” to each other
 Australasian Gannet - Morus serrator - 29 October 2017 - Muriwai Gannet Colony
Another bird comes in for landing
 Australasian Gannet - Morus serrator - 29 October 2017 - Muriwai Gannet Colony
Another bird comes in for landing
 Australasian Gannet - Morus serrator - 29 October 2017 - Muriwai Gannet Colony
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