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No 200 : February 24, 1971

42

The New Breed

Each year scores of black-backed gulls nest on inaccessible stretches of New Zealand's shores and cliffs. Up the East Coast, young Brian Lloyd, of Douglas Street, Okitu, has kept watch on a small colony of the birds and has kept a record of their nesting and hatching habits.

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A parent bird wheels above the nest.

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Gull chick (lower arrow) is well camouflaged with its buff and brown fluff. Complete adult plumage is not assumed until about 3½ years. A second chick has started to peck its way through the shell (top arrow).

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Brian Lloyd with one of the older chicks

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Eggs are a very pale green with shaded brown markings

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Gulls keep a look-out from near their nests

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