Science News for Kids » bird fertility http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org Publication of the Society for Science & the Public Wed, 22 May 2013 22:09:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Oldest bird is new mom http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2013/02/at-62-albatross-hatches-a-healthy-chick/ http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2013/02/at-62-albatross-hatches-a-healthy-chick/#comments Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:52:40 +0000 Allison Bohac http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/?p=15816 Wisdom, an albatross who is estimated to be 62 years old, tends to her newly hatched chick. She is the oldest known wild bird. Credit: John Klavitter/U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

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