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title: "Royal Cam about to go live as Northern Royal Albatrosses hatch at Taiaroa Head"
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# Royal Cam about to go live as Northern Royal Albatrosses hatch at Taiaroa Head

So far, 11 of the 35 eggs originally laid this season in the mainland colony of [Endangered](http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/speciesfactsheet.php?id=30005) Northern Royal Albatross *Diomedea sanfordi* at New Zealand's  [Taiaroa Head](http://www.acap.aq/en/news/news-archive/60-2013-news-archive/1307-acap-breeding-sites-no-6-taiaroa-head-pukekura-new-zealand-an-albatross-colony-on-the-mainland?highlight=WyJ0YWlhcm9hIiwibm8iLCInbm8iXQ==) have hatched.  Twenty fertile eggs remain to hatch.  Watch a video clip of an egg hatching [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2B5-189sqA&feature=youtu.be).

 One of these chicks is set to be watched by a live-streaming "Royal Cam" from the 26th, with infra-red capability so goings on at the nest after dark can be followed ([click here](http://www.acap.aq/en/news/latest-news/2391-a-webcam-is-installed-at-a-northern-royal-albatross-nest-at-taiaroa-head) and [here](http://www.doc.govt.nz/royalcam) to learn more about the set up).  

 [![](https://acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/N/Northern_Royal/Northern_Royal_Albatross_Taiaroa_hatchling.jpg)](http://www.acap.aq/en/news/latest-news/2391-a-webcam-is-installed-at-a-northern-royal-albatross-nest-at-taiaroa-head)

 A hatchling emerges from the 2015/2016 breeding season

 ![](https://acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/N/Northern_Royal/Royal_Cam.jpg)

 The Royal Cam goes live in four days' time

 Sprinklers are set to keep the chicks cool if the temperature gets too high ([click here](http://www.acap.aq/en/news/latest-news/2390-keeping-northern-royal-albatrosses-cool-in-the-face-of-el-nino)).

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 22 January 2015*