64-Year-Old Albatross Lays Egg – World’s Oldest Living Tracked Bird To Experience Motherhood

A 64-year-old albatross has laid an egg. Tagged by scientists in 1956, the albatross named Wisdom is the oldest tracked bird that is going to experience motherhood at such an advanced age. The world’s oldest-known tagged bird is about to become a mother. The albatross was one of the first birds in the wild to be fitted with a serialized tracking band on the foot. The senior bird has outlived most of the other birds in her species, but her becoming a mother...
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