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Toroa video

How you can meet the locals:

Royal Albatross

Taiaroa Head/Pukekura albatross colony

Teaching resource:

A bird in the hand

At the end of the Otago Peninsula lies the tiny outpost of Taiaroa Head, here you'll find the one of world's largest seabirds, the Northern royal albatross.

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