New Zealand’s Royal Cam albatross egg hatches
By DW
31 January 2021 |
5:39 pm
New Zealand's most watched albatross egg, the focus of a 24-hour livestream of the northern royal albatross colony, has cracked, with the chick now back in the nest with its parents.
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