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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.
In 1956, Wisdom was tagged by scientists as #Z333 at the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge.When she was banded in 1956, she was conservatively estimated to be five years old—the earliest age that the Laysan albatross reaches sexual maturity—corresponding to a hatching date of the 1950-51 breeding season at the very latest.
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.
The world's oldest known wild bird has laid an egg at the approximate age of 74, US biologists say. Wisdom, a Laysan albatross, was filmed by the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) at the Midway ...
Midway Atoll (colloquial: Midway Islands; Hawaiian: Kuaihelani, lit. 'the backbone of heaven'; Pihemanu, 'the loud din of birds') [3] [4] is a 2.4 sq mi (6.2 km 2) atoll in the North Pacific Ocean. Midway Atoll is an insular area of the United States and is an unorganized and unincorporated territory. The largest island is Sand Island, which ...
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]
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.
An albatross chick at Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument, Midway Atoll. Albatrosses are held to undertake these elaborate and painstaking rituals to ensure that the appropriate partner has been chosen and to perfect partner recognition, as egg laying and chick rearing is a huge investment.