Move over, Al Pacino and Robert De Niro — another senior member of society is having a baby. And she also has wings and a beak.
A Laysan albatross named Wisdom — who, at approximately 74 years old, is the world’s oldest known wild bird — has laid an egg, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reports.
“We are optimistic that the egg will hatch,” says Jonathan Plissner, supervisory wildlife biologist at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. Plissner adds that the egg is a “special joy.”
As the bird equivalent of a baby boomer, hopefully Wisdom will have the, well, wisdom to peacefully deal with all the new millennial bird parents.