Wisdom incubating her egg (December 2014). Photo credit: Daniel W. Clark/USFWS
Wisdom, the world's oldest known, banded, wild bird is seen here incubating her newest egg in December 2014. Wisdom returns to Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge and Battle of Midway National Memorial each year to nest and raise her chicks. The Refuge and Memorial is home to 70% of the world’s Laysan albatross and is the largest colony of the albatross species in the world! To learn more about Wisdom and her home, click.
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Torishima (s Izu) and Muko-jima (Ogasawara=Bonin Is.; s of Japan), Northwestern Hawaiian Is. (most of population) and Guadelupe and Revillagigedo is. (w of n, c Mexico)
Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN
Antarctica
AO
Atlantic Ocean
AU
Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
PAL
Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO
Indian Ocean
LA
Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA
Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA
North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO
Northern oceans
OR
Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)