Image: Chris McCormack, Royal Albatross Centre | ©
Two rangers place a chick in a plastic basket to use as a weighing tool.
Track the chick's weight
See a graph showing the average weight for both male and female albatross chicks.

We use DNA testing to determine the sex of the chicks. Size, weight and temperament of the chick can be used at around 80 days of age as male chicks usually become heavier and larger than female chicks at that stage.

The graph below shows the average weight for male and female albatross chicks, and the Royalcam chicks from 2020 to 2024.


The graph below shows the average weight of male and female chicks compared with the weight of previous Royal Cam chicks:

  • Karere (2018/19)
  • Moana (2016),
  • Tūmanako (2017), and
  • Amīria (2018).


Graph showing the four chick's weights who were born between 2017 and 2018, from day 0 to day 241.

There are times when we are unable to weigh the Royal Cam chick, so these sections have just been averaged out.