Wisdom the Laysan albatross was banded at Midway Atoll in 1956 - already an adult. She is now at least 74 years old, the oldest known wild bird on Earth, and she laid an egg and hatched a chick in early 2025. Biologists estimate she has fledged around 30 chicks in her lifetime. The scientist who banded her, Chandler Robbins, died in 2017 at age 98. She is still going.
