Story: Gannets and boobies
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.
About this item
Department of Conservation
Reference: 10042076
Photograph by Dick Veitch
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