Staring glumly at the ground, the stressed out bird has clearly grown tired of his despairing mother's constant attempts to try and smarten up his hair.

Sporting an afro-style brown bush head of hair, the late developer has taken longer to shed his baby feathers than the other youngsters in the colony.

Pecking and plucking the unfortunate teenager, his mother was snapped attempting to speed up her son's unusually slow moulting process.

While the beaked bird has already grown majestic black and white feathers on his wings and stomach, it is still waiting to develop a golden crest on his head.