UK - Two female royal albatrosses at a New Zealand breeding colony have successfully incubated a chick. By Ben Leach The father, one of several males at the Taiaroa Head Royal Albatross Centre on the South Island's Otago Peninsula, appears to have disappeared, according to the centre managers. (Story continues below)
"It's quite unusual in the albatross population here at Taiaroa Head to have two females mating together," Lyndon Perriman, the colony's head ranger, told Television New Zealand ... (Continue story) |