Mother Jones

Wildlife Populations Have Plunged Globally, But Some Buck the Trend

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Earth.com

A biologist banded her in 1956, and the world’s oldest known wild bird is still nesting on the same island today

Wisdom, the world's oldest known wild bird, returned to Midway Atoll at age 75 after hatching another egg in 2025, extending ...
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Biologists tagged a wild albatross in 1956: Decades later, Wisdom is outliving her researchers and raising chicks at age 75

Wisdom, a juvenile Laysan Albatross, was guarding her nest on Midway Atoll in the North Pacific when wildlife biologist Chandler Robbins tagged her right leg on December 10, 1956. Little did he know ...
Indiatimes

In 1903, rabbits were released on Hawaii’s Laysan Island as a food source; within a decade they had nearly stripped it bare, and three of its five landbird species eventually ...

When German immigrant Max Schlemmer brought a small number of domestic rabbits to the isolated Pacific atoll of Laysan in 1903, he hoped to create a profitable meat-canning business. He also saw the ...
Yahoo

‘Ocean’ team on David Attenborough’s historic Emmy nod at 100 and how their film ‘changed the world’

His Best Narrator nod is one of six for National Geographic's documentary, along with Best Documentary or Nonfiction Special, Best Cinematography for Doug Anderson and Toby Strong, Best Music ...
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Hilarious albatross courting dance caught on camera

Watch this pair of Laysan Albatross perform their hilarious courtship dance. Sheldon Plentovich was in Kuaihelani (Midway Atoll) in Hawaii, USA, when he spotted these two birds. They were ...
IFLScience

Wisdom, The World’s Oldest Known Wild Bird, Has An Adorably Scruffy New Grandchick

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics.View full profile Holly has a degree in ...
Popular Science

The world’s oldest wild bird has a new grandchick

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Arizona Daily Sun

London Zoo: In search of the Laysan Albatross

There are 22 species of albatrosses, but until our recent winter holiday in Kauai, Hawaii, nobody in our family had ever seen one. Finally doing so was even more exciting to us than our sightings of ...
Popular Science

Watch an albatross give its brand-new chick a very careful cleanup

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AOL

The World’s Oldest Wild Bird Returns to Nest at 75 Years Old

A 75-year-old bird has returned to Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge for the 2025/2026 nesting season. She is the oldest known wild bird ever recorded and remains an active breeder. The Laysan ...