Royal Albatross don’t have a lot of enemies because
they mostly live on the Ocean but when they come back to land to have their babies,
one thing that really harms them is stoats which really likes to eat their
eggs. The biggest thing that harms them on the Ocean is fishing companies
because they try to get there food but get tangled up in nets.
Monday 12 November 2012
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The Royal Albatross/Toroa only breeds
in New Zealand waters. They are both in the Northern and Southern islands of
New Zealand. The Northern species nests on the Chatom Islands (top of New
Zealand). Where do they nest in the South Island? They are on the Taiaroa Head
on the Otago peninsula. The Royal Albatross range throughout the Southern Ocean
and are mostly found in the New Zealand coastal waters during the winter.
The Royal Albatross lives in two places
firstly they spend most of their time out in the ocean feeding and only come
back to the land when they are going to hatch their eggs. The weather that they
have to go through is a mixture of nice and bad weather from storms out in the ocean
and nice sunny days on the land. They can get very windy at times because of
being right next to the Ocean.
Although the Royal Albatross eat some
fish and other marine creatures, there mane feed is squid that they pluck from
the sea. But they have some competition for example the main competition is
fishing companies and boats for example Long-line fishing, drift-netting and
trawling is what gets them. Many albatrosses go for fishing vessels which gives
them an easy food source and they will follow boats to feed on fish bait and
discards. They may take the food without coming to any harm, but some get
caught in fishing gear. But not a lot get caught.
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