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title: "Głuptak australijski"
description: "Morus serrator — Ptaki. The Australasian gannet (Morus serrator), also known as the Australian gannet or tākapu, is a large seabird of the booby and gannet family, Sulidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/australasian-gannet
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Głuptak australijski

> Morus serrator — Ptaki. The Australasian gannet (Morus serrator), also known as the Australian gannet or tākapu, is a large seabird of the booby and gannet family, Sulidae.

- Scientific name: *Morus serrator*
- Category: `birds` (Ptaki)
- Habitats: `sea` (Morze i wybrzeże)
- iNaturalist observations: 6435
- Wikidata: [Q782094](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q782094)
- iNaturalist taxon: [3801](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/3801)

## Names

- en: Australasian Gannet
- de: Australtölpel
- es: Alcatraz australiano
- fr: Fou austral
- nl: Pacifische jan-van-gent
- pt: Atobá-australiano
- pl: Głuptak australijski

## Countries with the most observations

AU (2909), NZ (2728), ZA (17), TF (7)

## Summary

The Australasian gannet (Morus serrator), also known as the Australian gannet or tākapu, is a large seabird of the booby and gannet family, Sulidae. Adults are mostly white, with black flight feathers at the wingtips and lining the trailing edge of the wing. The central tail feathers are also black. The head is tinged buff-yellow, with a pearly grey bill edged in dark grey or black, and blue-rimmed eyes. Young birds have mottled plumage in their first year, dark above and light below. The head is an intermediate mottled grey, with a dark bill. The birds gradually acquire more white in subsequent seasons until they…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australasian_gannet

## Photo

![Głuptak australijski](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/australasian-gannet/medium.jpg)

Photo: Scott · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/207096113

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/australasian-gannet?lang=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).