The world's oldest known wild bird, a Laysan albatross named Wisdom, has hatched yet another chick at Midway Atoll in the Hawaiian archipelago. Biologists first identified and banded Wisdom in ...

The albatross reactions in both instances were scored 0-4, with 0 indicating shyness and 4 indicating boldness. Ultimately, ...

Not only that, the chick's father is in the picture too, as albatross across species takes turns caring for their chick while the other hunts and feeds to restore energy, according to the Pacific ...

Wisdom has successfully raised at least 30 albatross chicks over the course of her life. Laysan albatross do not lay eggs every year and raise only one chick at a time, so the contribution of one ...

Albatross parents take turns incubating an egg for about seven months. Chicks fly out to sea about five to six months after hatching. They spend most of their lives flying over the ocean and ...

The Laysan albatross, known as N333 ... The video shows N333 hovering over his chick at the refuge, as the chick’s chest rises and falls. The group described it as “a heartbeat of hope.” ...

To showcase the albatross’s remarkable longevity, Wisdom was tending to a newly hatched egg when she was rediscovered. She was also observed tending to a new chick as recently as February 2025.

However, I was equally shocked to come across pellets that albatross chicks had regurgitated just before they fledge and to find in amongst it evidence of plastic ingestion. The chicks get the ...

Chris Jordan's 2009 photos of dead albatross chicks with plastic in their guts went viral. Anna Turns looks at how it changed our response to the plastics crisis When photographer Chris Jordan ...

A few feet away a partly fledged Chatham albatross chick stood up on its pedestal nest, yawned and shook its shaggy wings. Then it flumped down with the stoical look one might expect from a ...