PHOTO OF THE DAY December 28, 2005  

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Where West Coast National Park, Republic of South Africa
When 1995
Photographer Chris Johns

These Cape gannets may be the picture of elegance, but they’re surprisingly rowdy, as a photographer 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."

—From National Geographic Collector's Edition: 100 Best Unpublished Pictures, November 2003

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