A bird on an islandSourced
Real birds arrived.
He stayed with a concrete one.
Nigel was the only gannet living on New Zealand's Mana Island for much of his life. He nested beside a concrete decoy and groomed it. Even when real gannets arrived, he stayed by the model.
A bird and a decoy
became a world story.
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