World’s oldest known wild bird is a mother again on Midway Atoll

Parrots can live even longer, even outlive most humans, so the title confused me too, until I noticed "wild."

I think more interesting is that it, and presumably many others, survived so long in the wild of all places. Many species are known to have significantly extended lifespans in captivity compared to the wild, so that alone isn't unusual. What is is that in all that time, the bird has avoided sickness and disease, predation, other natural perils, as well as man-made perils (according to Wikipedia, major man-made threats for the species are fishing, plastic pollution, lead poisoning, and introduced species), and so on. The bird is going on 70 and has never had access to modern healthcare - something unthinkable for modern society.

Anthropocentrism isn't big on humility, but is on being "first" or whatever-est, as if that changed anything. I guess it's purely a game.

Until death.

You can take a walking tour on Google Maps. Really neat.

Many of the Pacific Islands are lined with plastic bags. It's really quite sad.

Same, and my old man died 21 years ago. We’re so used to the opposite that it’s strange when they outlive us.

The oldest tortoise around was born during the Industrial Revolution.