The fascinating life of Wisdom, the world's oldest known wild bird

The Laysan Albatros survived many current threads like fish-lines, climate change, and plastic pollution.Wisdom has become a celebrity among bird lovers, and researchers are fascinated by her longevity and the number of young she raised. USFWS estimated Wisdom must have hatched more than 30 chicks in her lifetime. Every year she returns to her same nest on one of the three tiny coral islands that form the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge; it is the world's largest colony of albatrosses. Sailing above the oceans with her more than six-foot-wide wingspan, she must have an incredible mileage under her wings.