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Posted: February 5, 2021

World’s oldest known, banded wild bird hatches chick at Midway Atoll


Wisdom‘s newest chick shortly after hatching, with its Dad, Akeakamai.
Wisdom‘s newest chick shortly after hatching, with its Dad, Akeakamai. Credit: Jon Brack/Friends of Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge

Wisdom, a mōlī (Laysan albatross) and world’s oldest known, banded wild bird, hatched a new chick this month at Midway Atoll in Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument. Biologists first observed the egg pipping on Friday, January 29. After several days, the chick hatched on Monday, February 1.

At least 70 years old, biologists estimate that Wisdom has hatched at least 30–36 chicks in her lifetime.

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