However, both police and the Department of Conservation (Doc) are refusing to answer questions about the eggs’ disappearance.
In November last year, four days after they were discovered missing, Doc alerted the public four northern royal albatross (toroa) eggs had gone missing from the colony at Taiaroa Head (Pukekura) near Dunedin.
This month, both organisations declined official information requests relating to the work done to solve the mystery of their disappearance.
Each said releasing the requested information could prejudice the ongoing investigation into the matter.
A week after the eggs were found to be missing during daily monitoring of the albatross colony’s nests, on November 10 last year, Doc’s then-coastal Otago operations manager Annie Wallace said because the investigation under way continued to come up empty, it increasingly pointed to an orchestrated effort to steal the protected eggs.
While the investigation would continue, the reason the eggs had gone missing could remain a mystery unless people came forward with information, Ms Wallace said.
"It feels like it’s been really well planned," she said on November 17, last year.
"I think there’s a high chance that it will remain unsolved."
This month, a year later, Doc declined a request for any correspondence relating to the missing eggs or the investigation.
If there were any reports drafted about the investigation, they too were not able to be released.
"The matter is the subject of an ongoing police investigation, release of the information requested has potential to prejudice the investigation," Doc Southern South Island regional operations director Aaron Fleming said in response to the ODT request.
When the ODT asked police, that organisation also declined the request. Initially, a spokeswoman said the file remained open but there were no updates to provide.
Could there be correspondence, memos, or reports into the matter?
Again, an official information request was denied.
"Police considers the interests requiring protection by withholding the information are not outweighed by any public interest in release of the information," was the response.
Albatross eggs have only been targeted at the Dunedin colony once before. At that time, in 1938, one of Dunedin’s early conservationists Lance Richdale spent weeks protecting the remaining nests at the colony.
