World’s oldest known wild bird is a mother again on Midway Atoll

About 3 million seabirds nest at Midway Atoll, including about a million albatrosses, which return to where they were born each year to nest and raise their young, a behavior known as “nest-site fidelity,” according to the Fish and Wildlife Service. “Midway Atoll’s habitat doesn’t just contain millions of birds, it contains countless generations and families of albatrosses,” said Kelly Goodale, Fish and Wildlife Service Refuge biologist, in an email. The Fish and Wildlife Service also noted that an endangered short-tailed albatross chick has been born to a pair named George and Geraldine who nested on Midway Atoll.

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