The world’s oldest known wild bird, named Wisdom, has hatched another chick on the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. The new addition to the refuge’s Laysan albatross population was first observed by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist Pete Leary on Feb. 3, some 57 years after Wisdom was first banded while incubating an egg in the same area. Biologists estimated that … [Read more...] about Oldest Bird In World Hatches Egg In Midway Wildlife Refuge
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World’s Oldest Known Bird Hatches Another Chick
The world’s oldest known wild bird, named “Wisdom,” has hatched another chick on the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. The new addition to the Refuge’s Laysan albatross population was first observed by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist Pete Leary on Feb. 3, some 57 years after Wisdom was first banded while incubating an egg in the same area. Biologists estimated … [Read more...] about World’s Oldest Known Bird Hatches Another Chick
By the Numbers: Old Birds and Big Towers
2,000 Number of endangered adult Laysan and black-footed albatross that were killed when the March 10 tsunami struck a national wildlife refuge on the Midway atoll; another 110,000 chicks were killed 60 years Age of “Wisdom” (pictured), an albatross that survived the tsunami and is the oldest known wild bird in the world 450 feet Height of Central Maui’s KMVI radio tower, … [Read more...] about By the Numbers: Old Birds and Big Towers