The oldest known wild bird in the U.S. is a new mother

The Laysan albatross that's at least 60 years old has been spotted with a chick at Midway Atoll, a remote wildlife refuge 1,300 miles northwest of Honolulu.

She incubated an egg for the first time in 1956, when she was 5 years old. The bird, named Wisdom, has likely raised at least 30 to 35 chicks during her life.

Albatross lay just one egg a year. But it takes most of a year to incubate and raise a chick, and the seabirds sometimes take a year off from parenting after successfully raising a fledged bird.

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