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Sharyn Broni (Ranger, DOC) Mod
BOK's GPS tracker update. SP = start point and EP = end point. BOK has travelled over 1493km so far in the last 9 days.



Sharyn Broni (Ranger, DOC) Mod
BOK's GPS tracker update. SP = start point and EP = end point. BOK has travelled over 1493km so far in the last 9 days.















Sharyn Broni (Ranger, DOC) Mod
Kia ora koutou (hello everyone)
Enjoy this short video of the top 5 highlights from 2025
WYL and BOK at Plateau nest. The fertile egg was laid on the 6th of November so is now 39 days old. Eggs are incubated for an average of 79 days before hatching so this egg is now halfway through the incubation period. Give or take a few days, the chick is due to hatch near the end of January 2026.
BOK returned from a 10-day foraging trip this morning. WYL is now out to sea on his foraging trip.
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/
Sharyn Broni (Ranger, DOC)Sharyn Broni (Ranger, DOC) Mod
This breeding colony has not always been here. Toroa were first seen in the area in the late 1800's, and the first egg was recorded in 1919. The first chick fledged in 1938; at the time there were 3 breeding pairs. in 1989 6 chicks fledged from a total of 19 breeding pairs. That was a 32% success rate compared to the 86% success rate that we achieved for the 2024/25 season. There was a high rate of infertility and egg breakages during the 1988/89 season.


