Robbins was thrilled when he checked the bird-banding records at the USFWS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center and found Wisdom was at Midway Atoll. The refuge is home to about 3 million birds ...

Wisdom, the world’s oldest known wild bird ... and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Pacific region said in a statement on X. Researchers first attached an identifying band numbered Z333 on Wisdom ...

The seabird, recognized by her well-known band number Z333 ... Plissner reported to USFWS (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service): "She was still actively courting other birds in March.

According to CNN, it turned out that the red band was placed by the late well-known ornithologist Chandler Robbins in 1956. The USFWS estimates that the bird has laid up to 60 eggs and raised as ...

Wisdom, the world's oldest known bird, laid her first eggs in the 1950s Wisdom was first found and fitted with a tracking band in 1956 after she laid an egg, according to the USFWS. Laysan ...