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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.
Laysan albatross Wisdom was spotted with her new partner and egg at a Pacific Ocean refuge.
Her last offspring hatched in 2021.
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 (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 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 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) posted on X (formerly known as Twitter) on Tuesday, Dec. 3, that Wisdom, a 74-year-old Laysan albatross, has laid a new egg, her first in four years. "SHE ...
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.