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Location

Taioroa Head, Dunedin, South Island
New Zealand

Metadata

Make Canon EOS 7D
Lens Canon EF 100-400 mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM   at 320 mm
Exposure 1/500 s, f/5, ISO 3200 
Image size 800 x 534 pixels

IOC Names

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Comments

This Northern Royal Albatross belongs to the colony at Taiaroa Head, near Dunedin, New Zealand. In 1937, one of the first albatrosses to appear at Taiaroa Head was tagged and then studied coming back to the same spot for 60 years. A film of her last trip was made.

Grandma, the Oldest Albatross, Natural History New Zealand, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2005.




 
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    26/03/2011

Northern Royal Albatross
Diomedea sanfordi
Albatros royal du Nord
Jean-Michel PAULUS