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It takes two adults to raise Antipodean albatross chick —one bird alone simply can’t provide enough food. If one parent doesn’t return from a foraging flight, the remaining bird can’t keep both itself and its chick from starving. And increasingly, the mother birds, which tend to forage differently from the males, are dying on longlines.
On photographer Richard Robinson’s November 2022 visit to Antipodes Island, he barely saw adult albatrosses—just chicks in nests. “They’re ginormous, big, fluffy things,” he says. “They’re all hungry and they’re all crying out for food from their parents. “The death of this chick would have been horrible,” Robinson says. He thought about it all through the three-day sail back to Bluff, and he still thinks of it now.
Shot on assignment for New Zealand Geographic Issue: 182 July /August 2023.
Read the Feature: https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/summer-33/
Photograph Richard Robinson © 2023.
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ANTIPODEAN ALBATROSS
It takes two adults to raise Antipodean albatross chick —one bird alone simply can’t provide enough food. If one parent doesn’t return from a foraging flight, the remaining bird can’t keep both itself and its chick from starving. And increasingly, the mother birds, which tend to forage differently from the males, are dying on longlines.<br /> On photographer Richard Robinson’s November 2022 visit to Antipodes Island, he barely saw adult albatrosses—just chicks in nests. “They’re ginormous, big, fluffy things,” he says. “They’re all hungry and they’re all crying out for food from their parents. “The death of this chick would have been horrible,” Robinson says. He thought about it all through the three-day sail back to Bluff, and he still thinks of it now.<br /> Shot on assignment for New Zealand Geographic Issue: 182 July /August 2023.<br /> Read the Feature: https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/summer-33/<br /> Photograph Richard Robinson © 2023.<br /> Rights managed image. No Reproduction without prior written permission.