3.08
BOK izskatās satraukusies, bet tur pavisam tuvu esot alu sugu ligzdas (mazo pingvīniņu un kvēpu vētrasputnu) .

3.25
Te pēdējais kadrs un tad kamera atslēdzas.

7.46
Ostas kamerā redzams, ka BOK ir vietā.


































Sharyn Broni (Ranger, DOC) ModSharyn Broni (Ranger, DOC) Mod
Kia ora koutou (hello everyone)
Royalcam News
WYL and BOK who raised a chick at Top Flat Track during 2024 are the new Royalcam pair this season. They are nesting at Plateau this season. The fertile egg was laid on the 6th of November and will be incubated for an average of 79 days before hatching.
Like last years Royalcam pair WYL and BOK will receive GPS trackers, we will be able to follow their foraging journeys as they take turns to incubate the egg. BOK received her tag today and WYL will be fitted with his tag after he returns from his foraging trip.
It will be at least a week before we start updating the Royalcam pairs GPS tracks.
2025/26 season update
Egg laying is over, 47 eggs were laid in total, some of the later eggs are still to be candled.
Candling is the term used to describe shining a light through the eggshell. This is best done after 10 days for toroa eggs. One egg has been established as not being viable using this technique, but the pair will be held on a dummy egg in case we need to use them as foster parents.
Read more about our work with the toroa here: Ranger's work for royal albatross: https://www.doc.govt.nz/nature/native-a ... albatross/
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.
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.
Meanwhile, rangers are busy adjusting the irrigation system so each nest can be individually irrigated and preparing for a busy hatching season.
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 Signal Station Flat, the 2025 Royalcam chick, now a journeying juvenile the name Kaewa, meaning traveller/adventurer. Kaewa has travelled over 10,000 km so far.
Past Royalcam family’s news
Read more about the Royalcam families here: Meet the Royal family: 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. Their egg has been candled and is fertile.
GO and WO, the foster parents of 2018 chick Amiria are nesting but sadly their egg was found broken. They are on a dummy egg to hold them as potential foster parents.
YWK and KGY, Moana’s parents also have a fertile egg this season and Tūmanako’s dad BK and his new RLW also have an egg.
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).
