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Field identification and sex determination of the royal albatross

Notornis, 9 (1), 1-6, 13-20

K. Westerskov (1960)

Article Type: Paper

Royal albatrosses have black eyelids, white body plumage in all ages, longer bill and more rounded, protruding nose-tubes than the wandering albatross, which has pale greenish, bluish, pink or white eyelids. In flight, royal albatrosses often have the outer hands bent slightly backwards while wanderers usually form a near-perfect cross. The southern royal albatross (Diomedea epomophora epomophora) of Campbell Island is the larger and characterised by its white wing-patch: the smaller northern form (Diomedea epomophora sanfordi) has pure black wings. In the southern royal albatross males have usually appreciably more white on the wings than females: they are also a little bigger, with longer bills: length of middle toe nail in females is less than 24 mm., in males 24 mm. or more.

Winter nesting of pied stilts in South Auckland

Notornis, 8 (4), 95-99

A.F. Stokes; H.R. McKenzie; L.M. Renouf; B.L. Goertz (1959)

Article Type: Paper

There is proof of seventeen nests having contained eggs at various times between the middle of June and the last day of July. The nests were divided between two districts and were in five separate groups. The only record of laying to hatching did not indicate a more lengthy period than the normal one for the spring. The survival of newly hatched chicks through a long severe winter storm was most surprising. The hatching to flying period was on the average nine days longer than normal. The small size at the first flying of the last eight birds, from three different broods, has not been previously experienced by the observers.

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