“There on a grassy path, before my astonished gaze, sat a male albatross incubating a large white egg.”
With these words of wonder, Lance Richdale, a science adviser to Otago schools, recorded his first encounter in November 1936 with the royal albatrosses at the tip of Otago Peninsula. The sight was remarkable then and remains so: giant seabirds tending a giant egg comparable in proportion and weight to a pack
