The world’s oldest bird, a Laysan albatross named Wisdom, is still strutting her stuff after more than 70 years on Midway Atoll. She has outlived the average life expectancy of seabirds of her kind by a couple decades.
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The world’s oldest bird, a Laysan albatross named Wisdom, is still strutting her stuff after more than 70 years on Midway Atoll. She has outlived the average life expectancy of seabirds of her kind by a couple decades.
It’s that time of year when residents of Iceland’s Westman Islands gather thousands of baby puffins and heave them off a cliff. The chicks not only survive the strange annual intervention, it’s crucial to their survival.