World’s oldest-known wild bird lays an egg in Hawaii at age 74
This bird’s no spring chicken — but she’s procreating in her 70s!
The world’s oldest known wild bird, an albatross named Wisdom, triumphantly laid her first egg in years this week at the ripe old age of 74.
“We are optimistic that the egg will hatch,” Jonathan Plissner, supervisory wildlife biologist at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in Hawaii said.
The long-winged seabird popped out the potential baby near the Hawaiian Archipelago islands after returning there with her mate earlier this week.
The frisky fogey and her life-long lovebird, Akeakamai, had flown back to the circular chain of reef islands to lay and hatch eggs since 2006.
But Wisdom hadn’t laid an egg in four years after Akeakamai apparently flew the coop and disappeared several years ago.

