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Support OneGreenPlanet Being publicly-funded gives us a greater chance to continue providing you with high quality content. Please support us! Support Us In a refreshingly heartwarming story earlier this month, the world’s oldest known wild bird has hatched yet another chick. Wisdom the Laysan Albatross is believed to be at least seventy years old, and is nesting in the Midway Atoll national wildlife refuge, a small island in the North Pacific. Wisdom is believed to have hatched the chi...

Wisdom, the World’s Oldest Known Wild Bird, Has Another Chick An albatross named Wisdom has astounded researchers by hatching a chick at more than 70 years old, securing her title as the world’s oldest known breeding bird. The Laysan albatross named Wisdom, who was first identified and banded on Midway Atoll in 1956, has hatched a chick at the age of at least 70.Credit...John Klavitter/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service March 5, 2021 At more than 70 years young, Wisdom, the world’s ...

Jon Brack / Friends of Midway Atoll Originally published on March 5, 2021 11:52 am The worlds 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. Wisdoms latest chick successfully hatched in February, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services office in the Pacific Islands. "Wisdom laid her egg sometime during the last f...

The babys gender is presently unknown. But Wisdom and her partner have already started taking turns to feed it.

The Pisonia tree’s grisly behavior has a devastating effect on the bird population. A study conducted on seabird population on Cousin Island in Seychelles revealed that the Pisonia tree killed a quarter of White Terns and nearly a tenth of Tropical Shearwaters via fatal seed entanglement. Scientists have wondered if there is any evolutionary benefit derived by the Pisonia tree by killing birds. One hypothesis stated that the trees get increased nutrients from the decomposition of bird corpse...

A Laysan albatross named Wisdom was first banded in 1956 and has reared at least 40 chicks.