Cape Gannet (Morus capensis)

About Cape Gannet (Morus capensis)

• Kingdom: Animals
• Phylum: Chordates
• Class: Birds
• Order: Boobies
• Family: Boobies and Gannets

Breeding takes place in densely packed colonies either on the flat ground of the low lying islands, or on flat ledges of the steeply sloping Mercury Island (4). Nests are a mound of the birds' droppings, guano, in which other material such as feathers and bones may be mixed (3) (5) (8). The wintering range is typically confined to the continental shelf, at no more than 100 km from the coast, although birds have occasionally been recorded on oceanic waters (4).
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