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Photo: Cape gannets

Photograph by Chris Johns
For “A Place for Parks,” July 1996

These Cape gannets may be the picture of elegance, but they’re surprisingly rowdy, as Chris Johns discovered during a three-day shoot of the birds on South Africa’s Malgas Island. “They kept up a racket 24 hours a day,” he says. “It was almost deafening.”

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