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(GT)Sharyn Broni (Ranger, DOC) Mod
Kia ora koutou (hello everyone)
Power outage alert.
On Tuesday the 10th of December from 9am to 4.30pm the power to Pukekura/Taiaroa Head will be off due to power poll maintenance in the area. This means the live stream will be off during this time. We will be live streaming again as soon as possible.
Known by their colour bands and identified as male or female by their size (the average male is larger than the average female). They share the incubation of the egg which takes on average 79 days, around 2.5 months. Occasionally, we should get a glimpse of the egg as the parent stands briefly.
Changeover times can be around 2 weeks; adult albatross are perfectly adapted to going without food for this time. It was a quick turn around for GLG for her last foraging stint and she was only away for 5 days.
The Royalcam pair will receive GPS tags.
Geo Positioning Tags are very light weight and are cable tied to the strong back feathers between the wings. They will fall off after around a year when these feathers are moulted. We will receive the data via satellite so do not need to retrieve the device to see the information that it has gathered of the bird’s whereabouts.
View — uploads.disquscdn.com Image credit, DOC. Close up of chick being fitted with a GPS tag.
As GLG is back on the nest she will be the first of the pair to be tagged, likely later in the week on Friday. The egg will be placed in the incubator during the process and returned once she is settled on a dummy egg on the nest. We hope to gain foraging location insights from the data.
Today's GPS tag update of juvenile toroa from Pukekura tagged 25th of September and 5th of October 2024. They fledged between the 27th of September to the 14th of October 2024.
View — uploads.disquscdn.com
Thanks to the generous donations on the Otago Peninsula Trusts give-a-little page we can share the tracking of 10 juveniles including the orphaned Top of Bluff Track, still in the mid Pacific Ocean.
The starting point was at Pukekura, Dunedin, New Zealand and they have travelled across the south Pacific Ocean to the waters of South America.