Royal Albatross Female Unloads Giant Meal Of Seafare For Nestling | DOC | Cornell Lab

Watch the female Northern Royal Albatross (named "L") drop by the nest to feed Manaaki. Mom leads her chick to the nest site and regurgitates a few mouthfuls. Before she leaves, L drops a large chunk of seafare by the nest site (3:28), and Manaaki pecks at it from the ground.
RoyalCam was set up in January 2016 by the Department of Conservation and the Cornell Lab has been collaborating with DOC since 2019 to bring the cam to life. To learn more while watching, view the cam at
www.doc.govt.nz/royalcam
or at
www.allaboutbirds.org/albatross
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Royal Cam is a 24-hour live stream of a Northern Royal Albatross nest during the breeding season at Pukekura/Taiaroa Head on the southeast tip of New Zealand's South Island.
This season (2022-23) we are watching a male, GLY (named for his colored leg bands: Green, Lime, Yellow) and female, L (Lime). The fertile egg was laid on the November 4, 2022.
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[@misterrocketman]

The parent's frustration is palpable... "no, n- I- listen, just wait a second, if you block my mouth I- I can't- just back off for- oh for goodness' sake, here, YOU figure it out..."

[@McPilch]

This is exactly how it played out!!! 😂🤣😂🤣

[@dianestiner8602]

The chicks are always so very hungry. How incredible they can stay for days without food 😮. Ohboy, this must be at least 1kg of octopus that fell on the ground 😳!

[@McPilch]

Kids these days... GIMME GIMME GIMME!!!!! 😂
Then again, with that crazy growth rate and time between feeds, I totally can forgive Manaaki for being like this!! 😄🥰

[@Yzabeaux1]

❤ I absolutely LOVE these Albatross babies l.😁❤️

[@tmoln2131]

I have had the good fortune of visiting the site and observing the Albatross and now being back in North America....I can still get that same joy of seeing the birds active and developing. Really appreciate the webcams and videos. Maybe someday I will get a chance to visit the site near Dunedin again.

[@bennyschnuck7876]

Thank you for this beautiful webcam - love greetings from Germany 🖤❤💛👋

[@Alena_Alena_Alena]

Manaaki looks bigger than mom already

[@madamepigeon]

Baby is almost ready now❤❤

[@patriciafranklin803]

Whoa! That's a hunk of food!

[@artimidz3451]

That's what love looks like.

[@nancyross2897]

Patience little one. I love watching this but it still makes me gag lol

[@LizbetPCB]

Holy smoke! That’s a LOT of food! Is that regurgitating on to the nest site something that’s normally done? Or is it very out of the ordinary?
Thank you, Lady Hawk!

[@ZennaD]

This isn’t Lady Hawk’s channel 😊

[@LizbetPCB]

@@ZennaD ooops! Mea culpa 😔

[@marcelineronk6016]

Love this site! Wish the writers would always put dates on the pictures they post.

[@TheMcChelle]

Look across the top of the screen; you’ll see a date stamp.

[@LinkaBellGAME]

Wow that's a lot! 😮

[@YuliSayuri]

Baby is almost the same size as mom 😅

[@beatricecallan]

Even bigger

[@monaalbano9672]

Mom is trying to disgorge and baby is interrupting her. 2:26

[@ZennaD]

And he can’t eat it 😢

[@Alena_Alena_Alena]

Why do you think so? It looks like he eats it by small bits, but nevertheless eats...

[@ginavacarescu7264]

Why?

[@complimentary_voucher]

They eat it without any issues, it's just bits of chunked fish from the mothers' crop, if you watch to the end you'll see him digging in enthusiastically. Ew, but also great.

[@ruthnoronha8206]

Pretty gross