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THESE giant baby birds aren’t potty-training, but waiting to grow strong enough to travel. They bide their time on towering nests meant to keep them safe.
The Chatham albatross (Thalassarche eremita) is one of the rarest and least known albatross species, with only around 5000 breeding pairs left in the world.
The birds spend most of the year living on the ocean, but as the breeding season begins each August, juveniles and adults return to Te Tara Koi Koia, a small, steep and rocky islet in the Chatham Islands, 800 kilometres east of New Zealand.
The albatrosses use soil, bird…
