Quick Take Wisdom, the Laysan albatross banded in 1956, is at least 75 years old and continues to reproduce. She has laid 50 ...

Wisdom is thriving in America — Wisdom the albatross, that is. The Laysan albatross is now at least 74 years old, and she recently laid an egg at the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in the ...

At the age of at least 74, Wisdom the albatross is showing that for many, motherhood simply never ends. The Laysan albatross was first banded (or marked) in Hawaii in 1956. Meaning, she could be even ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Wisdom, the world’s oldest known wild bird, has laid an egg, this time with a new partner. She is a Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis), or ...

On the northwestern edge of the island of Oahu, a dirt road meanders along the coast like a ribbon of red soil and rock, dipping toward the ocean, spreading out like a fine net of trail between the ...