Mollymawks and breeding
They breed on land in New Zealand and that’s also where the name Mollymawk is from, at least indirectly. It’s from a Dutch word meaning foolish gull because they’d land on ships making a free meal for sailors, you missed a trick there ! I’ve heard or read that they taste vile though.
It’s amazing watching them fly, we’d see them often only just off the coast as it was a rich feeding ground for whales and dolphins and so they’d hang around too at times.
https://www.doc.govt.nz/nature/native-animals/birds/birds-a-z/albatrosses/royal-albatross-toroa/royal-cam/
