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Australasian Gannet

Morus serrator · Family Sulidae

Morus serrator

Family Sulidae

Order
Suliformes
Family
Sulidae
GBIF occurrence records
149,329
Countries and territories with records
13
Play song · Dr. Mark Hauber, Cheryl Krull et al. from the University of Auckland have released these recordings. · Australasian_Gannet_(Morus_serrator)_vocalizations_from_colony_at_Cape_Kidnappers,_New_Zealand_(b).ogg · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Dr. Mark Hauber, Cheryl Krull et al. from the University of · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 149,329 occurrence records from 13 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Australia (70.7%) and New Zealand (29.1%); together they account for 99.8% of the total. In Australia, this species accounts for 0.096% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Morus serrator combines the genus name Morus with the species epithet serrator. The Warbla app catalog lists 3 species of the genus Morus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Morus bassanus and Morus capensis.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 10 species of the family Sulidae. This species ranks 4th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Morus bassanus. Its record count is 44% of the family average (339,265). The family Sulidae belongs to the order Suliformes, which has 48 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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