Cape Gannet

• It dives from thirty metres and hits the water at more than a hundred kilometres an hour: air sacs under the skin of the neck and breast cushion the impact, and its nostrils are closed internally, opening instead into the mouth.
• Its decline is a direct indicator of fisheries collapse: the population has fallen along with the sardine of the Benguela Current, and the birds have had to replace it with prey of lower nutritional value.

Skeleton type

Vertebrate - internal bony skeleton (bird)

Habitat and environment

Waters of the Benguela Current; breeds on six islands in South Africa and Namibia

Sexual maturity

4 years

Gestation / incubation

44 days of incubation

Litter / clutch size

1 egg

Sources consulted: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morus_capensis

The pins mark the parks where its presence is documented.