68-year-old wild seabird lays another egg on Midway Atoll

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced in a Facebook post that Wisdom appeared at her nest site Nov. 29 at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge and Battle of Midway National Memorial. Biologists also confirmed that she laid an egg. [Photo: Screenshot of Facebook]

The world’s oldest known wild seabird has laid another egg.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says the Laysan albatross named Wisdom appeared at her nest site at Midway Atoll National Wildlife refuge last month.

The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reports biologists confirm she laid the egg.

Wisdom and her mate return to the same site on Midway Atoll each year. Laysan albatrosses lay one egg and raise one chick per year.

Biologists believe Wisdom is at least 68 years old.

FILE - This Dec. 3, 2016, photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows the world's oldest known seabird, tending to an egg she laid, with her mate, at Midway Atoll, a wildlife refuge about 1,200 miles northwest of Honolulu. Biologists spotted the Laysan albatross called Wisdom at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge earlier this month after she returned to the island to nest. She was incubating an egg at the same nest she uses each year with her mate. She's believed to be 66 years old. She's also the world's oldest known breeding bird in the wild. [Photo: AP/ Dan Clark/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service]

Biologist Chandler Robbins first identified and banded Wisdom in 1956.

She has returned to Midway almost every year since 2002.

Midway Atoll is home to the world’s largest colony of albatross.

The island about 1,200 miles (1,930 kilometers) northwest of Honolulu was the site of a pivotal World War II battle.

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