Wisdom, the world’s longest wild bird, gave birth to baby at 70

At 70, wisdom is listed as the oldest bird in the world and, surprisingly, she saw herself as a mother. This Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) hatched an egg that hatched on February 1 on Midway Atoll, near the northwestern tip of the Hawaiian archipelago. The hatching and hatching of the chick was monitored by the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), which has been the guardian of wisdom for decades and spread the good news.

Wisdom has outlived its previous mating partners, as well as biologist Chandler Robbins, who first named her in 1956. She has since given birth to around 40 calves. The latter and others were raised with Akeakamai, her partner since 2010, according to biologists monitoring her.

“We think Wisdom had other partners,” said Beth Flint, a biologist with the US Fish and Wildlife Service. “Although albatrosses mate for life, they can find new mates if necessary, for example if they survive their first mate.”

Wisdom laid the egg at the end of November and has not hatched so far because the incubation period of albatrosses is approximately 65 days. Wisdom and Akeakamai alternated the incubation process, giving the other time to go to the sea for food. Now that the pigeon is born, they continue to alternate their maritime expeditions to feed their young. They will continue like this until the summer, when the young alabaster will be able to fly.

Albatrosses spend 90% of their life flying over the North Pacific, from Alaska to Costa Rica, but they always come back to the same place to lay and care for their eggs. They do it during the winter and always with the same partner.

From that memory and that trip back to his original home, his name came out. Wisdom means wisdom in Hawaiian and it was baptized this way because albatrosses, although they have spent the first five years of their life at sea, are able to return to their place of birth to procreate. Midway Atoll receives more than one million albatrosses which return to nest each year.

“Because albatrosses only nest every one or two years, the international bird community is waiting to see if they can come back and nest,” says Sean Dooley, National Director of BirdLife Australia. Reason for the celebration ”.