Gannet
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Gannets are seabirds in the genus Morus. They are related to boobies. They are large white and black with yellow heads. They have long, pointed wings and long bills. Gannets only lay one blue egg.
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Northern Gannets on Heligoland, a small German archipelago in the North Sea | |
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Genus: | Morus Linnaeus, 1753
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