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Kia ora koutou (hello everyone)
2025/26 season update
Egg laying has begun with a steady increase in eggs over the last week.
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.
Read more here: https://www.doc.govt.nz/nature/native-a ... to-expect/
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.
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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 Signal Station Flat, the 2025 Royalcam chick, now a journeying juvenile the name Kaewa, meaning traveller/adventurer.
Kaewa means to travel or roam and is appropriate as she is named while she is on her massive round the world journey. For pronunciation, click on the audio in Te Aka, Māori Dictionary. https://maoridictionary.co.nz/word/13712
Background on data collection
All chicks at Pukekura are banded with a uniquely numbered Stainless-Steel band and a colour band. Twenty chicks who fledged during 2025 have Geo Location Sensors (GLS) attached to the Stainless-Steel band. This data must be collected and downloaded when they return in 5 years’ time. Eighteen chicks from 2025 have Global Positioning System (GPS) tags which send data via a satellite but as they are attached to feathers, they will be moulted off at some point. The GLS tags will collect data for much longer than the GPS tags.
Banding ensures that we will be able to recognise everyone in years to come and be able to collect lifespan and breeding success data.
Ziņas par Royalcam ģimeni iepriekšPast Royalcam family’s news
Read more about the Royalcam families here: https://www.doc.govt.nz/nature/native-a ... al-family/
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 have been sighted.
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. Tūmanako, BK and ROY are all well out of range of the Royalcam cable. Moana the first Royalcam chick has been sighted as well, very good news as she was not spotted last summer.



