First Egg of the Season Laid on Albatross Livestream
In the app: the whole story at your level, listening, the quiz and the word cards.
The same story at six levels
How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.
- A1
Royal Cam shows a Toroa.
- A2
A female Toroa called L laid an egg at Pukekura/Taiaroa Head.
- B1
An adult female Toroa, or northern royal albatross, is known as L. She laid the first egg of the new breeding season.
- B2
An adult female Toroa, or northern royal albatross, known as L returned to the colony at Pukekura/Taiaroa Head on 13 October 2026.
- C1
When an adult female Toroa, or northern royal albatross, known as L returned to the breeding colony at Pukekura/Taiaroa Head on 13 October 2026, she did not build a new nest.
- C2
When an adult female Toroa, or northern royal albatross, known as L returned to the breeding colony at Pukekura/Taiaroa Head on 13 October 2026, she dispensed with the business of building a nest from scratch.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- colony
- A large group of birds or animals of the same type living closely together in one place.
- mate
- An animal's sexual partner that it produces young with.
- incubation
- The process of keeping birds' eggs warm until the young birds come out.
- fertile
- Able to develop into a new living baby, plant, or animal.
- fledge
- To grow the adult feathers needed for flying.
- equal
- To reach the same number, amount, or level as something else.
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by Department of Conservation (New Zealand). Read the original for the full report.