Posted by: Sandy Steinman | December 16, 2016

World’s Oldest Known Wild Breeding Bird Has A New Egg

KHON  reports

Wisdom, the world’s oldest known breeding bird in the wild, has returned to her home, Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge and Battle of Midway National Memorial in the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument.

At approximately 66 years old, she is also expecting. Wisdom was spotted on December 3, incubating an egg at the same nesting site she and her mate use each year.

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