Dunedin Albatross centre - a photo on Flickriver

Taiaroa Head, Otago Peninsula..

We cruised out of Dunedin, passing the Albatross colony and lighthouse. We had visited the Albatross centre back in 2005, such an amazing story. The Royal Albatross Centre is operated by the Otago Peninsula Trust, New Zealand’s first private charitable conservation trust. A proportion of every ticket sold at the centre goes directly towards the fostering and protection of the Northern Royal Albatross.

The northern royal albatross is a huge white albatross with black upperwings. It usually mates for life and breeds only in New Zealand. Biennial breeding takes place primarily on The Sisters and The Forty-Fours Islands in the Chatham Islands. There is also a tiny colony at Taiaroa Head near Dunedin on the mainland of New Zealand, which is a major tourist attraction... Monitoring of the Taiaroa Head population has been undertaken since 1937.

Northern royal albatross can be sighted throughout the Southern Ocean at any time of the year. Non-breeding and immature birds, including newly fledged birds, undertake a downwind circumnavigation in the Southern Ocean. The main wintering grounds are off the coasts of southern South America. They are generally solitary foragers and forage predominantly over continental shelves to shelf edges.
www.nzbirdsonline.org.nz/species/northern-royal-albatross

Taken on: December 13, 2019

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Camera: Canon EOS 550D, f/9.0, 1/100 sec, 18mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

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