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Wisdom. Wisdom (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 the 1950s at Midway by the United States Geological Survey (USGS), she was still incubating eggs as late as 2020 and has received international media coverage in her lifetime.
Albatrosses live much longer than other birds; they delay breeding for longer and invest more effort into fewer young. Most species survive upwards of 50 years, the oldest recorded being a Laysan albatross named Wisdom that was ringed in 1956 as a mature adult and hatched another chick in February 2021, making her at least 70 years old. She is ...
Procellariiforms range in size from the very large wandering albatross, at 11 kg (24 lb) and a 3.6-metre (12-foot) wingspan, to tiny birds like the least storm petrel, at 20 g (0.71 oz) with a 32-centimetre (13-inch) wingspan, [27] and the smallest of the prions, the fairy prion, with a wingspan of 23 to 28 cm (9.1 to 11.0 in). [22]
Laysan albatross have a wingspan well over 6 feet and nest on the grassy areas of low, flat islands, according to the National Audubon Society. They have a population of more than 1 million but ...
The laysan albatross averages 32 in in length and has a wingspan of 77–80 in. They have the largest wingspan of any bird. The Laysan albatross feeds predominantly on cephalopods , but also eats ...
The North Pacific albatrosses are large seabirds from the genus Phoebastria in the albatross family.They are the most tropical of the albatrosses, with two species (the Laysan and black-footed albatrosses) nesting in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, one on sub-tropical islands south of Japan (the short-tailed albatross), and one nesting on the equator (the waved albatross).
For over a decade, Young studied the benefits of female-female nesting pairs in a Laysan Albatross colony on northwest O`ahu. Laysan Albatross typically mate for life and the male and female of the species look identical. Young used DNA from the feathers from albatross pairs and found that over a third of the pairs were female-female.
The short-tailed albatross is a medium-sized albatross, with a wingspan of 215 to 230 cm (85–91 in), [6] a length of 84 to 94 cm (33–37 in) [7][8] and a body weight that can be 4.3 to 8.5 kg (9.5–18.7 lb). Among standard measurements, the bill is 12.7–15.2 cm (5.0–6.0 in) long, the tail is 14–15.2 cm (5.5–6.0 in) long, the tarsus ...