{"id":17850,"date":"2024-12-06T09:04:03","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T10:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=17850"},"modified":"2024-12-06T10:26:36","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T10:26:36","slug":"worlds-oldest-known-wild-bird-lays-an-egg-at-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=17850","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s Oldest Known Wild Bird Lays an Egg at 74"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wisdom, a Laysan albatross, has outlived at least three mates and the researcher who outfitted her with a tracking band in 1956.<\/p>\n

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Wisdom, a 74-year-old Laysan albatross, laid an egg at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge at the northwestern edge of the Hawaiian Archipelago.<\/span>Dan Rapp, via USFWS<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The world\u2019s oldest known wild bird, a 74-year-old Laysan albatross named Wisdom, is expected to welcome another baby chick in the coming months, astonishing scientists who have been tracking her since the Eisenhower administration.<\/p>\n

Wisdom laid an egg on Nov. 27 on Midway Atoll, a speck of land in the Pacific Ocean, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said<\/a>. Researchers said they were optimistic that it will hatch in about two months, making her a mother for the 30th or so time. Her last chick hatched in 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Scientists have long marveled over Wisdom\u2019s longevity and her ability to breed as she gets older.<\/p>\n

Jonathan Plissner, a supervisory wildlife biologist at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, told BBC Radio 4<\/a> on Wednesday that \u201cit\u2019s very rare\u201d for a bird of Wisdom\u2019s age to lay an egg, noting that \u201cthe average age that birds can survive is probably closer to 30 years.\u201d The next oldest albatross that researchers are aware of at Midway Atoll is about 45 years old, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe is unique,\u201d Dr. Plissner said. \u201cWe don\u2019t know of any others that are even close to her age.\u201d<\/p>\n

Researchers at the wildlife refuge found that Wisdom had returned on Nov. 26 to Midway Atoll, about 1,200 miles northwest of Honolulu<\/a> \u2014 and the site of one of the biggest battles<\/a> of World War II, just a few years before she was born.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Wisdom immediately began interacting with a new mate upon her arrival, the scientists said.<\/p>\n

While albatrosses usually mate for life, they will find new mates to breed with if their partner dies. Dr. Plissner believes Wisdom has outlived at least three mates.<\/p>\n

She hatched and raised chicks with another albatross named Akeakamai for decades, most recently in 2021, but Akeakamai has not been seen in several years. Wisdom\u2019s new mate was outfitted with a tracking band last Friday. He stayed back to incubate the egg while Wisdom headed back to sea for a time, researchers said.<\/p>\n

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Wisdom, a Laysan albatross, has outlived at least three mates and the researcher who outfitted her with a tracking band in 1956.Wisdom, a 74-year-old Laysan albatross, laid an egg at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge at the northwestern edge of the Hawaiian Archipelago.Dan Rapp, via USFWSThe world\u2019s oldest known wild bird, a 74-year-old Laysan albatross named Wisdom, is expected to welcome another baby chick in the coming months, astonishing scientists who have been tracking her since the Eisenhower administration.Wisdom laid an egg on Nov. 27 on Midway Atoll, a speck of land in the Pacific Ocean, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said. Researchers said they were optimistic that it will hatch in about two months, making her a mother for the 30th or so time. Her last chick hatched in 2021.Scientists have long marveled over Wisdom\u2019s longevity and her ability to breed as she gets older.Jonathan Plissner, a supervisory wildlife biologist at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, told BBC Radio 4 on Wednesday that \u201cit\u2019s very rare\u201d for a bird of Wisdom\u2019s age to lay an egg, noting that \u201cthe average age that birds can survive is probably closer to 30 years.\u201d The next oldest albatross that researchers are aware of at Midway Atoll is about 45 years old, he said.\u201cShe is unique,\u201d Dr. Plissner said. \u201cWe don\u2019t know of any others that are even close to her age.\u201dResearchers at the wildlife refuge found that Wisdom had returned on Nov. 26 to Midway Atoll, about 1,200 miles northwest of Honolulu \u2014 and the site of one of the biggest battles of World War II, just a few years before she was born.Wisdom immediately began interacting with a new mate upon her arrival, the scientists said.While albatrosses usually mate for life, they will find new mates to breed with if their partner dies. Dr. Plissner believes Wisdom has outlived at least three mates.She hatched and raised chicks with another albatross named Akeakamai for decades, most recently in 2021, but Akeakamai has not been seen in several years. Wisdom\u2019s new mate was outfitted with a tracking band last Friday. He stayed back to incubate the egg while Wisdom headed back to sea for a time, researchers said.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17852,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17850"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17853,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17850\/revisions\/17853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}