Tiaki and SSTrig wake up to another beautiful New Zealand sunrise! SSTrig does some wing exercises first thing! Later in the morning, we find the girls close to one another (Tiaki is on the left). SSTrig does a few clacks and then gets up and tells Tiaki to go back to her nest. Tiaki retreats and finds a new spot but SSTrig comes back over. Clack Clack Clack back and forth between them Tiaki is standing her ground. You can see the wing of another chick below them probably Plateau chick.
Tiaki entertains herself with gardening along with her clacks back at SSTrig. We have beautiful closeup coverage of both girls ♥♥ At 7:56 SSTrig will start wheezing and displaying to Tiaki and then lets out some skycalls! Looks like she was bound to exercise her dominance once again causing Tiaki to leave and find a new spot. We get a nice zoom on SSTrig - she is a beauty too as she wingercises back to her territory.
Tiaki does some wing exercises too and has to tame that naughty wing to behave a couple of times. Tiaki practices her jumps and wing strokes! The girls are on their 4 week countdown to fledging! Thank you for watching!
Video captured & edited by Lady Hawk
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~~ LGL hatched in 2008 and is a 12 year female paired with LGK hatched in 2009 an 11 year male. They have been together since 2017 and became our Royalcam couple for the 2018/2019 season. Their first breeding season produced an egg but it later died. In 2019 their chick Karere fledged successfully. LGL laid her egg on Nov. 7th 2020. LGL/ LGK are the Royalcam couple for the 2020/21 season! The chick hatched on January 24th 2021.
Courtesy of Dept of Conservation Royal Cam, Royal Albatross Taiaroa Head, New Zealand & Cornell Labs
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