January 7th 2024 @12:05 am We have an egg in the CahowCam1 burrow!
On the night of the 6th-th January, the female Cahow using the CahowCam 1 (R831) nest burrow returned from the open sea to the nest, captured by the livestream video camera installed there. After arriving at 11.05pm and spending the next hour re-arranging the nest material, the female laid her large, single egg at 12.05am, and promptly begin incubating the egg. Then, as to emphasize how well-synchronized these birds are after being separated by hundreds of miles at sea for the last 5 weeks, the male bird arrived at the nest at about 1,49am, with the birds mutually preening each other (known as allopreening) and the male trying to convince the female to relinquish the egg so he could begin his incubation "shift".
Jeremy Madeiros, Senior Terrestrial Conservation Officer: