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Wisdom, the legendary Laysan albatross or mōlī, stands at center over her recently laid egg with other seabirds around the ground nest on Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, Nov. 27, 2024.
Wisdom, a Laysan albatross, was filmed by the USFWS at the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, located in the Pacific Ocean, watching over the egg with her latest partner.
The albatross's first egg in four years is "a special joy," according to Jon Plissner, a supervisory wildlife biologist at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge.
Wisdom (officially designated #Z333) is a wild female Laysan albatross, the oldest confirmed wild bird in the world and the oldest banded bird in the world. [1] First tagged in 1956 at Midway Atoll by the United States Geological Survey (USGS), she was still incubating eggs as late as 2024 and has received international media coverage in her lifetime.
The Laysan albatross has an occurrence range of 38,800,000 km 2 (15,000,000 sq mi) and a breeding range of 3,500 km 2 (1,400 sq mi) with a population of 1,180,000 mature birds estimated in 2006. [4] Midway Atoll, Laysan Island, and the French Frigate Shoals have more than 90% of the breeding pairs at 551,940. [26]
The critically endangered Laysan duck is found at Midway Atoll. This is a list of birds of the United States Minor Outlying Islands.This area consists of Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Atoll, Palmyra Atoll, and Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean and Navassa Island in the Caribbean Sea.
The 74-year-old albatross, named Wisdom, is expected to welcome a new chick next year. Oldest Known Wild Bird Has Been Spotted Again — And She's Got A New Boyfriend Skip to main content
Laysan albatross Wisdom was spotted with her new partner and egg at a Pacific Ocean refuge.