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Forest & Bird

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Scientist Kath Walker shot this video of a pair of Gibson's wandering albatrosses meeting up on the Auckland Islands in New Zealand’s sub-Antarctic deep south. Kath says the birds are clearly strangers doing some speed dating and it’s a bit aggressive. Gibson’s albatrosses are a nationally critical threatened species, after their population crashed in 2005. Kath and Graeme Elliott have studied this species and the related Antipodean wandering albatross for more than 20 years. It's likely that...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJGXLBKem5o&feature=youtube_gdata_player

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Forest & Bird / conservation / New Zealand / environment / not-for-profit / Non-governmental Organization (Non-profit Designation) / NGO / Royal Forest And Bird Protection Society Of New Zealand (Organization) / Bird (Animal) / Albatross (Organism Classification) / albatross protection

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