The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has confirmed that Wisdom, the world’s oldest female wild finch and at least 70 years old, hatched a young at a wildlife refuge on Midway Island in the Pacific early last month.
The USFWS explained that black-backed albatross Parents will share the incubation work, and when the young are born, they will also share the responsibility of feeding the young.
Black-backed albatrosses live only between 12 and 40 years and usually have only one partner for Life. Scientists discovered Wisdom in 1956 and estimate that it has had other partners in the past, producing at least 30 to 36 offspring.
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