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Observations on diving of the Australasian gannet (Sula bassana serrator Gray)

  • Publication Type

    Journal Article

  • Publication Year

    1955

  • Author(s)

    K. Wodzicki; F.H. Robertson

  • Journal Name

    Notornis

  • Volume, Issue

    6, 3

  • Pagination

    72-76

  • Article Type

    Paper

  • DOI

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Observations on diving of the Australasian gannet (Sula bassana serrator Gray)

Notornis, 6 (3), 72-76

K. Wodzicki; F.H. Robertson (1955)

Article Type: Paper

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Two behaviour patterns of the Australasian gannet at sea-diving and formation of “flotillas” are briefly described. On two occasions, social bands amounting to several hundred gannets were observed and a description of their feeding on large shoals of fish is given.