Wisdom, a Laysan albatross, has outlived at least three mates and the researcher who outfitted her with a tracking band in 1956. By Sara Ruberg The world’s oldest known wild bird, a 74-year-old ...

Wisdom, a Laysan albatross, laid the egg at the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge at the northwest edge of the Hawaiian Archipelago with a new partner, according to a Tuesday Facebook post ...

Midway’s Supervisory Wildlife Biologist Jon Plissner called Wisdom’s first egg in four years “a special joy” and commended the albatross’s “energy and instincts.” Typically Laysan ...