after years of trying to establish a new breeding colony, nigel the lonely gannet has died /

Source: The Guardian/Eleanor Ainge Roy
If there is such a thing as a tragic life for a bird,then the life of Nigel “no mates”, a original Zealand gannet, or probably fits that bill. Nigel lived for years on his own on uninhabited Mana Island off the north of the country,surrounded by concrete replica gannets. The motionless replicas had been put in more…

Source: theterramarproject.org