World’s oldest-known seabird lays an egg at age of 66 in Pacific refuge

Wisdom, a Laysan albatross, is also world's oldest-known breeding bird in the wild and has had a few dozen chicks

Wisdom the albatross, the world's oldest-known breeding bird in the wild, has laid an egg at 66 years of age after returning to a wildlife refuge in the Pacific Ocean, US wildlife officials have said.

Photos of the large seabird incubating her egg between her webbed feet at the Midway Atoll national wildlife refuge, the world's largest albatross colony, were posted on Twitter by the US Fish and Wildlife Service.