The world's oldest known wild bird is courting new mates on a remote island ... albatross has flown 3.5 million miles (5.6 million km) in her lifetime — the equivalent of 7 round trips to the Moon.

I worked on Bird Island research station, just off mainland South Georgia, for two and a half years as a zoologist, studying the albatross populations there. It was a real privilege to get to work ...

Wisdom, the 72-year-old albatross residing on an island northwest of Hawai'i ... female albatrosses lay one egg per season in the first half of December. Wisdom has already laid her egg this ...