Re: Ziemeļu karaliskie albatrosi Jaunzēlandē 2025/2026

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16.58
BOK.

18.23
BOK un ola.

19.14
Biežais viesis KA11.

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22.decembris
6.43
Rīts sākas un uz ostu dodas neliels, bet ļoti skaists, balts kuģis.
Silver Moon.

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9.39
BOK paslēpusi knābi un guļ.

10.04
Reindžers un dusmīgā BOK. Tik dusmīgu BOK vēl nebija gadījies redzēt.
Ieraudzīja darbinieka tuvošanos un jau sāka bārties.
Patiesībā vispār nekad nebiju redzējusi tādu albatrosa reakciju.

10.04
Diezgan nemākulīga cilvēka uzvedība un albatross to izmanto knābieniem.

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12.23
Viesis, kurš tiek pielaists ļoti tuvu.

12.24
Albatrosu meitene A46.

12.25

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16.03
Izkustina spārnus un parunā ar oliņu.

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23.decembris

Sharyn Broni (Ranger, DOC) Mod

Kia ora koutou (hello everyone)

Season’s Greetings to everyone.

What Does 100kg of Albatross Food Look Like?


We are very grateful for the donations to Otago Peninsula Trust https://givealittle.co.nz/org/otagopeninsulatrust as this has allowed us to restock the freezer with 100kg of fish for supplementary feeding of toroa.

Royalcam News

WYL and BOK at Plateau nest. The fertile egg was laid on the 6th of November so is now 47 days old. Eggs are incubated for an average of 79 days before hatching so this egg is now over halfway through the incubation period. Give or take a few days, the chick is due to hatch near the end of January 2026.
BOK has been on the nest for 9 days and WYL is now out to sea on his foraging trip and will likely return soon.



BOK has a GPS tracker and WYL will receive his GPS tracker the next time that he is on the nest.

BOK had travelled over 1500km on her foraging trip. SP = start point and EP = end point.

2025/26 season update

Forty-seven eggs were laid in total this season, 2 eggs have broken and 2 were infertile, the rest are viable so far. Loses are inevitable, our work maximises the number of chicks fledging but cannot prevent all negative outcomes.

Parents take turns incubating their large, single egg for the long incubation period 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.

If a parent is on the nest for 13 days, we remove the egg to the incubator room for safe keeping as there is a risk of desertion. The toroa are happy to incubate a dummy egg. Hydration and supplementary feeding can be provided to toroa who have been on the nest longer than 15 days.

Read more about our work with the toroa here: https://www.doc.govt.nz/nature/native-a ... albatross/

Adolescents have started arriving on the headland. These are 4- to 7-year-olds who have not touched land since fledging at 7.5 months of age. They can be a little unstable on their legs initially. They come right on their own.

More experienced non-breeders such as KA11 (standing) are spending time in their chosen territory and will come and go during the summer months while they look for a mate. Feeding trips are interspersed with time on the headland.

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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.

Te Poari a Pukekura, a joint trust made up of Te Rūnanga o Ōtākou members, Korako Karetai Trust, Dunedin City Council and DOC have gifted the 2025 Royalcam chick, now a journeying juvenile, the name Kaewa, meaning traveller/adventurer.
Kaewa has travelled over 10,000 km so far. As the juveniles are no longer migrating but foraging the movements are not so obvious on the map at this scale. Several tags have stopped sending data at the end of November including Kaewa’s tag. It is possible that this may be a satellite issue. The above update is from the end of November, we will update this when we know more.
Background on data collection

All toroa at Pukekura have been banded with a uniquely numbered Stainless-Steel band since 1936. A colour combination for an alphanumeric band on the opposite leg means quicker identification. Yellow bands are females, and the males have black bands.

Banding ensures that we will be able to recognise everyone in years to come and be able to collect lifespan and breeding success data.
Geo Positioning System (GPS) tags are attached to back feathers and will moult off. They send the data via satellite so it can be viewed without retrieving the tag.

Geo Location Sensors (GLS) are cable tied to the Stainless-Steel band have a long-life battery of over 3 years but must be retrieved from the bird to be able to download the data.
Past Royalcam family’s news

Read more about the Royalcam families here: https://www.doc.govt.nz/nature/native-a ... al-family/

The parents (LGK and LGL) of Karere, Tiaki and Kiwa are now on a fertile egg at Top Flat. YWK and KGY, Moana’s parents also have a fertile egg this season and Tūmanako’s dad BK and his new RLW also have a fertile egg.

GO and WO, the foster parent’s of 2018 chick Amīria are nesting but sadly their egg was found broken. They are on a dummy egg to hold them as potential foster parents.

Past Royalcam chicks that have returned to Pukekura are Moana, Tūmanako and Amīria.

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).

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4.15
Nakts viesis - Tumšais vētrasputns.

4.15
BOK dusmojas un ciemiņš aizlidinās.

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8.54
BOK

9.09

16.21

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16.33

17.27
BOK skaistie spārni, oliņa un krāsu joslas.

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20.22
Perētāji un arī albatrosi, kuri šogad vēl drauga meklējumos.

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24.decembris

Priecīgus Ziemassvētkus!!!

8.41
Atkal lietus, bet BOK saveicinās ar savu oliņu.

10.03
Kamera ar lietus lāsēm, bet laikam parādījusies saulīte.

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9.59
BOK ļoti nepatīk šis puisis, bet izskatās simpātisks.

9.59
Vismaz blociņš rokās, tad ir iepēja izvairīties no knābieniem.

9.59
Puisis jau aizgājis, bet BOK turpina dusmoties.

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10.13
Beidzot var mierīgi gulēt, jo cilvēki nav gaidāmi.

18.33
Atkal vakars.

21.15

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25.decembris
6.46
Rīts un arī agrais viesis.

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9.00
Neredzēta darbiniece, bet BOK tāpat nav sevišķi laipna.



9.00

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9.51
BOK aizmigusi.

13.40
Spārnu izkustināšana.

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18.33
Mamma ar oliņu.

19.09
Katru dienu līst.

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19.15
BOK ligzdā desmito dienu un sveicina kādu gaisā.

19.16
Albatrosu pāris parasti viens otru sajūt jau lidojumā.

19.16
WYL atgriezies.

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19.20
Šī pāra starpā valda ļoti lietišķas attiecības.

19.21
BOK atbrīvo vietu ligzdā.