From Business Insider:
At 63, The World’s Oldest Wild Bird Just Had A Baby
Jennifer Welsh
Feb. 7, 2014, 2:37 PM
At 63 years young, the oldest wild bird that we know of, Wisdom the Laysan albatross, has had another baby!
Almost exactly a year after her last chick was born, the new baby started cracking out of its shell. Refuge workers first spotted the baby bird on Feb. 4, according to the U.S. Fish And Wildlife Service (USFWS).
The birds live on the on the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, in the Hawaiian archipelago. They arrive every year to mate, build a nest, lay an egg and incubate it, then hatch and brood their chick. The birds mate for life and take turns sitting on the egg.
It takes 365 days to lay and incubate the egg, then raise the chick. The albatross only lays one egg a year and then usually takes a breeding year off. But Wisdom amazingly, usually has a new chick each year.
What a great post!
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Thanks for your kind words, Belinda! I hope the young albatross will grow up well.
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Reading this gave me a serious lump in my throat… What a wonderful story. Thanks again Petrel41 for sharing these gems!
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My pleasure 🙂 I hope there will be more good news.
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Reblogged this on Mungai and the Goa Constrictor.
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Thank you for your reblog 🙂
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My pleasure 🙂
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🙂
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This is awesome! I did not even know a bird that old would have a chick! Thank you for sharing 🙂
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In New Zealand there used to be an albatross (of a different species), also about sixty years old:
https://dearkitty1.wordpress.com/2007/06/25/500th-royal-albatross-chick-in-taiaroa-head-new-zealand/
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Wonderful story I have never heard of a bird living that long. Beautiful image.
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They say some parrots can live even longer (maybe not in the wild).
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cute
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Wow, that’s amazing!
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Indeed. All my best wishes for the young albatross and its parents!
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Yes, indeed! it’s wonderful that the parents mate for life and therefore know each other’s habits and parenting strengths better. 🙂
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