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Date: 18 February 2021
This chick is from a single breeding pair who made their nest this year on Pitt Island/Rangihaute/Rangiauria. One of the pair is itself a Pitt Island-reared chick, which returned to breed.
DOC Principal Marine Science Advisor Igor Debski says that although other albatross species breed in the Chatham islands, most Antipodean albatross nest at the Antipodes Islands so this is an exciting event.
“When we banded and tagged the chick on the 23 December it had already left the nest, a sign it was about to fledge. The tracking information shows it fledged on 27 December, so we made it just in time.”