Re: Ziemeļu karaliskie albatrosi Jaunzēlandē 2025/2026

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14.41
Te tikai treniņš.

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14.41
Divi viesi.
Kaija tikko mēģināja aizdzīt gārni.

14.42

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14.43
Albatrosu bērns vēl nav gatavs lidošanai.

15.47
No ostas kameras redzams, ka bērni izklīduši.
Ziņas par aizlidojušo skaitu varam gaidīt otrdien.

18.05

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14.septembris

Sharyn Broni (Ranger, DOC) Mod

Featured by Department of Conservation
Kia ora koutou (hello everyone)

Nau mai ki Te Wiki o te Reo Māori (Welcome to Māori language week)

Today’s Whakataukī (traditional saying) is particularly appropriate for the start of the toroa fledging period as without feathers the birds would not be able to fly.

Mā te huruhuru ka rere te manu.
Adorn the bird with feathers so it can fly.

Image: Huruhuru toroa/albatross feather, DOC.

Royalcam News

WYL and BOK and Āwheo at Plateau nest.
Āwheo means ‘halo’
Āwheo hatched on the 22nd of January 2026 and is now 235 days old (14th September), he fledged on the 4th of September at 225 days of age.

Āwheo may be gone but there is still lots to watch on Royalcam, 5 chicks have fledged so far.

2025/26 season update

A record 40 chicks hatched this season and there are a few more males than females. Fledging has started with the first chick leaving on the 2nd of September. Weights drop prior to fledging in September. All chicks received their alphanumeric and Stainless-steel bands. This season’s cohort of chicks are not receiving GPS (with the exception of Top Flat chick) or GLS tags as enough data for the Marine Teams purposed has been collect. Prior to fledging the chicks regurgitate a bolus of indigestible squid beaks as part of the normal preparations for fledging.

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

Once leaving Pukekura juveniles quickly learn about life on the ocean where they will spend 85% of their lives. They will learn to feed off the east coast of Aotearoa/New Zealand before crossing the 9000km across the Pacific Ocean to the Humbolt Current off the coast of Chile. Juveniles do not touch ground for on average 5 years when they return to their breeding ground having circumnavigated the globe.

The parents of fledging juveniles, now exhausted from the 7 months of feeding a huge chick also head across the Pacific Ocean where they will spend the next 12 months building up reserves for a new breeding season in 1 years’ time.

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 have a male chick at Top Flat, number 1000 for the life of the colony. The chick received a GPS tracker and fledged on the 12th of September.

Last 2 days of Top Flat chicks GPS tracking data.

YWK and KGY, Moana’s parents have a male chick and Tūmanako’s dad BK and his new mate RLW have a female chick.
GO and WO, the foster parent’s of 2018 chick Amīria had a broken egg but are raising a female foster chick.

Past Royalcam chicks that have returned to Pukekura are Moana, now 10 years old, 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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17.42
Skati no ostas kamerām.
Kļūst aizvien tukšāks un drīz varam gaidīt pirmo nākošās sezonas albatrosu atgriešanos.

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15. un 16.septembris
8.35
Lido pīle.

8.36

9.26
Āwheo ligzdā viesojas stērste.

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15.54
Kāda no albatrosu meitiņām.



16.20
Lido pieaugušais albatross.

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8.14
Ostas kamera un pļaviņa daudz albatrosu bērnu.

9.03
Kaijas kļuvušas pavisam nekaunīgas.

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9.04
Kaija mēģina knābt albatrosu bērna spārnā.

9.04

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9.04
Kaijas laikam uzskata, ka albatrosi ir aizkavējušies.

9.04
Palēciens.

15.18
Milzīgie spārni.

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15.18
Bērns ar melnu stīpu.

15.35
YF13.

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16.41
Bērnam veiksmīgā diena, sagaidījis barošanu.



16.43

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16.44
Uz barošanas vietu sarodas daudz ēst gribētāji.



16.47
Barošana beigusies un visi izklīst.

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17.septembris
7.07
Rīta treniņi.

8.20
Ostas kamera.

10.15
Darbinieki pārbauda palikušos albatrosu bērnus, bet ir arī grozs, kas paredzēts svēršanai.

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17.41
Bērns sagaidījis barošanu.

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17.43
Varbūt tā ir pēdējā barošanas reize.



17.48

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18.16
Saulriets

18.24
Skati no ostas kameras





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