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If one half of an albatross couple vanishes, it can take the other years to find a new mate. Females may pair up again after a couple of years, but a young Antipodean male could spend a decade looking for a new partner, and an older male? It could be decades if at all. If one parent doesn’t return from a foraging flight, its chick dies, because working alone, the remaining bird can’t keep both itself and its chick from starving.
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
If one half of an albatross couple vanishes, it can take the other years to find a new mate. Females may pair up again after a couple of years, but a young Antipodean male could spend a decade looking for a new partner, and an older male? It could be decades if at all. If one parent doesn’t return from a foraging flight, its chick dies, because working alone, the remaining bird can’t keep both itself and its chick from starving.<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.