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The 2025 Royalcam chick.
Although no longer at the nest site both parents have still been able to find her, and she now has a well-established ‘play nest’ in her new location. Increasingly, chicks are holding their wings out into the wind in preparation for fledging in September. Average fledge age is 240 days or 7.5 months.
Weigh day.
Regular weighing ensures underweight chicks can be supplementary fed.
Since hatching at 286g on the 28th of January, the Signal Station Trig chick has grown to 8.1 kg on day 175 (Tuesday 22 of July 10.17 am). This is a 150g decrease on last week’s weight of 7.8kg. This is still within the healthy weight range and a little under average. The growth weight has been massive for all the toroa chicks, and some are considerably heavier than their parents. The chick’s weights level off around this stage as most of the growing has now been done and they are maintaining weight until getting lighter prior to fledging.
Since last Tuesday the Royalcam chick has been fed 7 times and there was an extra weight taken on Friday which was 8.2kg and just below average. Due to past low weights faecal samples were collected to check for the presence of worms. None of the testing has indicated the need to medicate for worms.
View the graph on Track the chick's weight: https://www.doc.govt.nz/nature/native-a ... ks-weight/ Comparisons of average male and female chick weights and all the past Royalcam chicks are included. Rangers use weight data to determine when a chick requires feeding intervention. Six of the chicks are being fed relatively regularly, i.e. about once a week and several more have been supplementary fed at some point. A few only once when they were younger and 3 for the first time last week. We are about halfway through our freezer of 70kg of fish, squid and octopus as it is only in the last couple of months that supp feeds have consisted of 1kg of fish etc.
Sharyn Broni (Ranger, DOC) ModSharyn Broni (Ranger, DOC) Mod
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Because it’s the 10-year anniversary of Royal Cam, we’re doing something a bit different with the naming of the chick. Look out for our announcement in the next few weeks.
Have you ever wondered what happens behind the scenes here? Check out this video walk-through of our new field office at Pukekura/ Taiaroa Head.
Sharyn Broni (Ranger, DOC)Sharyn Broni (Ranger, DOC)
Our last tracked juvenile as doubled back towards South America and from the looks of things on windy.com this has been storm related.