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Sharyn Broni (Ranger, DOC) ModSharyn Broni (Ranger, DOC) Mod
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2025/26 season update
Egg laying is continuing, and earlier laid eggs are now being candled to check for fertility.
Candling is the term used to describe shining a light through the eggshell. This is best done after 10 days for toroa eggs.
Read more about our work with the toroa here: Ranger's work for royal albatross: https://www.doc.govt.nz/nature/native-a ... albatross/
Parents take turns incubating their large, single egg for the next 2.5 months until the chick hatches. Incubation stints can be quite short at the beginning and the end of the eggs incubation but often become quite long during the middle as they need to find enough food for themselves and the new chick to come.
Eggs will continue to be laid, one for each pair, throughout November.
The Royalcam will be moved after all eggs have been laid and a suitable Royalcam family can be chosen. Cam pair location depends on being in range of the cable, the cam needs to be higher up from the nest and the pair needs to be a reliable and tolerant pair.
Kaewa, The 2025 Royalcam chick.
Kaewa has crossed the Pacific Ocean | Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa and is now foraging in the Humboldt Current off the coast of Chile.


Kareres, Tiaki un Kivas vecāki tagad ir uz olas Top Flat. Šie ir LGK un LGL. GO un WO, 2018. gada cāļa Amirijas audžuvecāki, ligzdo, bet diemžēl viņu ola tika atrasta salauzta. Viņi ir uz mākslīgās olas, lai varētu viņus turēt kā potenciālos audžuvecākus. YWK un KGY, Moanas vecāki, arī šajā sezonā ir uz olas.The parents of Karere, Tiaki and Kiwa are now on an egg at Top Flat. This is LGK and LGL. GO and WO, the foster parents of 2018 chick Amiria are nesting but sadly their egg was found broken. They are on a dummy egg to hold them as potential foster parents. YWK and KGY, Moana’s parents also have an egg this season.
Tūmanako, who fledged in 2017, returned at the end of 2021 and has been ‘keeping company’ with a 7-year-old female (i.e. serious about breeding). As they will be first time breeders, we cannot be sure that they will breed this season, but so far, the signs are looking good.
Tūmanako’s father, BK has also been sighted as a 2025/26 returnee as has ROY, who persistently fed another pairs chick during 2024. Moana the first Royalcam chick has been sighted as well, very good news as she was not spotted last summer.






