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Royal Albatross — printable fact sheet
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Royal Albatross
Diomedea epomophora
The royal albatross lives on a timescale that has almost nothing in common with other birds. It does not breed until it is close to a decade old, it lays a single egg, and because rearing the chick takes the better part of a year, it can only breed every second season. Pairs bon…
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- A Royal Albatross chick takes nearly a year to fledge, making it one of the slowest-growing seabird chicks in the world.
- It does not begin breeding until nearly ten years old, then raises a single chick every two years. Pairs bond for life and may still be breeding in their sixties, so losing one adult can end a lineage. A shoulder tendon locks its wings open, so soaring costs almost no muscular effort. It spends years at sea between nesting attempts, circling the Southern Ocean.
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