Wisdom, the 74-year-old Laysan albatross hailed as the world's oldest known wild bird, has laid her first egg in four years at the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. According to Forbes ...

One lucky survivor was Wisdom, an albatross about 60 years of age, who is the oldest-known bird in the US. The Laysan albatross came to prominence recently when she was spotted with a chick ...

The previous longevity record for a short-tailed albatross is 37 years and eight months. The oldest known bird in the wild, a Laysan albatross on Midway Atoll in the North Pacific Ocean ...

Caption Albatross species such as the Laysan albatross forage in waters offshore, and their ranges overlap with areas being considered for offshore wind energy development. Displacement from ...

We haven’t been using the stuff for very long. The first documented cases of seabirds ingesting plastic were 74 Laysan albatross chicks found on a Pacific atoll in 1966, when plastic production ...

Adult birds gather these pieces and feed them to their chicks. Ninety percent of Laysan albatross chick carcasses are found with plastic inside of them. Derelict fishing nets and lines ...

The Laysan albatross, known as N333, was captured with his little one in a tender video shared by Friends of Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge on March 4 via Instagram. The group supports the ...