Lesbian Seagulls Become Parents

I wonder if they have mullets and wear flannel shirts?

It began with a love triangle between two female royal albatrosses and a wannabe male suitor. But girl power prevailed and the ladies dumped their man and set up a same-sex family together at the world’s only mainland albatross breeding colony in New Zealand.

Last week the female seabirds successfully incubated a chick in their all-girl household in the Royal Albatross Colony on South Island, which was hailed by Prince Charles when he visited in 2005 for its successful breeding programme for the rare and endangered birds.

The identity of the father of the days-old chick is unknown – it could be one of the numerous males in the 150-strong breeding colony – but what is known is that it will be raised by two mums.