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title: "A webcam is installed at a Northern Royal Albatross nest at Taiaroa Head"
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# A webcam is installed at a Northern Royal Albatross nest at Taiaroa Head

A Northern Royal Albatross *Diomedea sanfordi* nest at [Taiaroa Head](http://www.acap.aq/en/news/news-archive/60-2013-news-archive/1307-acap-breeding-sites-no-6-taiaroa-head-pukekura-new-zealand-an-albatross-colony-on-the-mainland?highlight=WyJ0YWlhcm9hIiwibm8iLCInbm8iXQ==), New Zealand has been fitted with a webcam due to go live once the egg hatches – expected this week.  It is then intended it will broadcast the chick-rearing period until the chick fledges ([click here](https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/webcam-to-be-installed-on-albatross-nest-watch-hatchling?autoPlay=4692852196001)).

 ![](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/N/NRA_chick.jpg) 

 A Northern Royal Albatross chick gets fed at Taiaroa Head

 The webcam joins one that will soon be filming a Laysan Albatross *Phoebastria immutabilis* nest and its chick on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, as it has for several years past ([click here](http://cams.allaboutbirds.org/channel/41/Laysan_Albatross/)).

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 14 January 2015*