Biennial breeding takes place primarily on The Sisters and The Forty-Fours Islands in the Chatham Islands. It usually mates for life and breeds only in New Zealand. The northern royal albatross is a huge white albatross with black upperwings. The egg was laid on November 6 and was the ninth egg out of the 51 eggs to be laid this season. Their current nest is at South Plateau which is higher up the hill than previous seasons and directly across from the observatory towards the Signal Station. Last season their egg was an early dead embryo. These two northern royal albatross have been together since 2017, this is their second breeding attempt. The 2018/19 Royal Cam is currently trained on the nest of LGK and LGL and their fertile egg. Half a century of showing albatrosses to visitors celebrated – ODT Kudos Department of Conservation and The Cornell Lab This year (2021/22) we are watching OGK (Orange, Green, Black) and YRK (Yellow, Red, Black) who are a chick which hatched Januafter being laid on Tuesday, November 9, 2021.ĭismiss or appreciate this as digital wallpaper, this channel is one of the best examples of Slow TV on the Internet. The New Zealand Department of Conversation has maintained a webcam beside a Royal Albatross nest in the colony on Otago Peninsula since 2016, providing a 24-hour live stream of an albatross nest during the breeding season. Aotearoa New Zealand– Royal Albatross Cam – /royalcam – streams live from the northern royal albatross colony at Taiaroa Head near Dunedin, Otago.

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