World’s oldest known wild bird lays an egg – her 60th – at the age of 74

Wisdom, the Laysan albatross stands over her recently laid egg with other seabirds around the ground nest on Midway Atoll (Dan Rapp/USFWS via AP)

The oldest known wild bird has laid an egg at the ripe age of about 74 – her first in four years – US wildlife officials have said.

The large seabird named Wisdom, a Laysan albatross, returned to Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge at the nort-hwestern edge of the Hawaiian Archipelago and laid what experts estimate may be her 60th egg, the Pacific Region of the US Fish & Wildlife Service said in a Facebook post this week.