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Wisdom, the 72-year-old albatross residing on an island northwest of Hawai'i, is performing mating dances for potential partners

The world's oldest known wild bird, Wisdom, a Laysan albatross, courted new suitors recently at the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in the North Pacific Ocean.

A Laysan albatross, or mōlī, known as Wisdom has been photographed dancing with potential mates at the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in the North Pacific Ocean.

She is thought to be around 72 years old.

Readers with good memory will recall that I’ve written numerous times over the years about a special bird by the name of Wisdom.

‘Island of Rats’ Recovers Along the western edge of Alaska’s Aleutian archipelago, a group of islands that were inadvertently populated with rodents came to earn the ignominious label of the “Rat Islands.” The non-native invaders were accidentally introduced to these islands, and others throughout the Aleutian chain, through shipwrecks dating back to the 1700s and World War II occupation. The resilient rodents, which are known to be among the most damaging invasive animals, adapted an...