Posted by: Sandy Steinman | March 6, 2021

Wisdom The Albatross, Now 70, Hatches Yet Another Chick : NPR

NPR reports

The world’s oldest known wild bird, a Laysan albatross named Wisdom, has hatched yet another chick at Midway Atoll in the Hawaiian archipelago. Biologists first identified and banded Wisdom in 1956; she is at least 70 years old.

Wisdom’s latest chick successfully hatched in February, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s office in the Pacific Islands.

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