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[Lani]

TFT got startled (and so did I!) when the Virgin Liner it blasted its horn while passing by.

[Lani]

Royal Albatross ~ LGK Returns But Misses LGL By 3 Hours! Feeds TF & Baby-sits TFT 💕 3.23.24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvt5xlJDKrE

Royal Albatross - Mar 24, 2024
Dad LGK comes back home the same day as LGL (TF's mom) - just missing her by 3 hours! What a shame - their reunions are few & far between now with both parents out full time foraging for food for their chick. LGK sits down like he likes to do upon arrival and then slowly make his way over to TF. LGK gives TF a feeding, rests again and then walks over to sit with TFT and baby-sit LGK is a gentle albie adult and TFT is happy to have the company. LGK comes back to be with TF and give a 2nd feeding.  Thank you for watching!

Video captured & edited by Lady Hawk

[Lani]

Royal Albatross ~ TF Does A Beautiful Skycall For LGL! ♫ ♥ Mum Feeds & Preens Her Chick! 4.1.24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm4bFlJgDR4&t=2s

Mar 31, 2024 - Easter
LGL is back after being gone for 6 days at sea! When TF sees that Mum is home, he lets out a beautiful skycall greeting to her! We have not heard any skycalls lately from the Royalcam chick so this was music to our ears! LGL approaches the nest and she returns the greeting - giving a full adult head thrown back version to her chick ♥ LGL will give TF a nice feeding and he gets some good mouthfuls of the squid special of the day! LGL also did a light preening on TF which was sweet and affectionate of her. LGL gets up and walks out of view on her way back to the sea to forage for food again. Hopefully she will find success close to home this time! Thank you for watching!

Video captured & edited by Lady Hawk

[Lani]

Mom BOK with her Easter chick TFT 

[Lani]

Weigh Day for TF and TFT!

Top Flat chick is 70 days old and weighs 6 kg at 9.03am today. Last week’s weight was 5.6kg. The top weight today was 6.7 kg.



Top Flat Track chick is 62 days old and weighs 4.9 kg at 9.05am today. Last week’s weight was 4.6kg.



Both chicks had feeds from parents yesterday. Parents need all the time they can get to find enough food for their fast-growing chicks.

The image below shows the GPS track of LGL when she raised Tiaki* in 2021. Albatross do not require much energy to fly as they use the wind currents. What they do need is a very good sense of smell to locate their food and to be able to fly vast distances. They will rest on the surface of the ocean and can fly 1000 km in a day. The speed an albatross flies depends on the wind speed. One of the earliest records of albatross flight speeds was when an albatross passed a helicopter travelling at 115 km/hr.

[Lani]

Mom BOK visits and feeds chick TFT 

[Lani]

Last night: the chicks were working on their nests... looking quite close here. TFT was really moving around.

[Lani]

Royal Albatross cam - 4/7 
It's the weekend and party time at Top Flat with the young adolescents, yesterday. Both Moms, LGL and BOK, were in, too.
Also New Zealand Daylight Saving ended last night. At 3am the clock switched to 2am

Enjoy the rest of your weekend.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1776735204058800448

[Lani]

Royal Albatross cam -

Apr 9, 2024 #birdcams #albatross #nowplaying
Watch LGK—the adult male from the Top Track nest site—wander into frame and begin feeding his lumbering, down-covered chick. This is LGK's first visit to the nest in more than 2 weeks! Adult Northern Royal Albatrosses can travel vast distances over the ocean to find food for themselves and their chick. In fact, one adult was tracked traveling more than 8000 miles in a single 2-week foraging trip!

Male LGK Royal Albatross Returns After Two-Week Foraging Trip To Feed Nestling TF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dScQ6wH9V8&t=5s




4/10 The chicks were weighed yesterday.

TF chick was 77 days old & weighed 5.9 kg, chick was then fed by Mum LGL & Dad LGK!

TFT chick was 69 days old & weighed 5.3 kg, he was fed by his Dad WYL later on.

Sharyn's update below and LGK video/news
http://AllAboutBirds.org/Albatross

https://twitter.com/i/status/1777798510710075511

[Lani]

Royal Albatross - A special skycall duet.   
Top Flat Track chick and Top Flat chick skycalling a few days ago.
Also includes their Dads, TF LGK and TFT WYL who were both away for a few weeks

Today; TFT Mom BOK and TF Dad LGK were in.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1778346497005981993

TFT chick with Dad WYL


TFT chick with mom BOK

[Lani]

Royal Albatross

Kia ora koutou (hello everyone) posted by Ranger Sharyn Broni

The new cam has been installed, thank you for your patience while we have been offline and while we have been unable to provide night viewing. We have been testing cam operations and will set presets for the cam ops this afternoon. We will, of course must wait till darkness to check out the InfraRed capabilities (visible to the cam but not the wildlife).



Toroa News

EDIT: Next week's weigh day will be on Monday 22nd April rather than the usual Tuesday.

LGK fed Top Flat chick at 1207 hours as the live stream came back online.

Weighing of chicks happened 20 minutes or so after the live stream came back online but Top Flat chick was a bit too nervous after the activity at the cam and had just been fed anyway. Risking losing a fresh meal does not benefit the chick.

Top Flat chick is 84 days old, the average weight for males at this age is 6.5 kg.

Last week's update: Top Flat chick is 77 days old and weighs 5.9 kg at 9.20am. This is just under average for this age and slightly down on last week’s weight. At 9.26am LGL came in and fed her chick. Rangers were well away from the area at this stage having already weighed the heaviest chick at Observation Post which recorded a hefty 7.5 kg.
This week the Observation Post chick was the heaviest chick again at 7.8 kg. A larger basket has been necessary for weighing of these large chicks.

Check the graph here: https://www.doc.govt.nz/nat...

Dad LGK feeding TF chick.


Dad LGK would later sleep between the two chicks


Dad WYL and his chick TFT