Flightless species of birds (such as ostriches, which are the largest living birds) tend to outsize any of the largest birds in the sky. Bigger sizes, while a liability in the air, can keep flightless ...

Dan Rapp / USFWS via Friends of Midway Atoll Once a mother, always a mother: Wisdom, the oldest known wild bird, is settling into parenthood again at age 74. The world-famous Laysan albatross ...

I worked on Bird Island research station, just off mainland South Georgia, for two and a half years as a zoologist, studying the albatross populations there. It was a real privilege to get to work ...

Every year, wildlife biologists in the Hawaiian archipelago anxiously await an albatross named Wisdom. The world’s oldest known wild bird, 74, makes an annual pilgrimage to the Midway Atoll ...

This is not the case for 74-year-old mom Wisdom, the oldest known wild bird in the world to lay an egg. The egg recently hatched to Wisdom, a Laysan albatross, who resides at the Midway Atoll ...