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title: "Wisdom’s \"grandchick\" gets a meal – watch the video!"
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# Wisdom’s "grandchick" gets a meal – watch the video!

 ![N333 with chick Daniel Rapp](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/L/N333_with_chick_Daniel_Rapp.jpg)*N333 broods its chick; photograph by Daniel Rapp*

 *ACAP Latest News* has [regularly reported](https://www.acap.aq/search14?q=Wisdom) over the last decade or so on Wisdom, the world’s oldest-known [Laysan Albatross](http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/laysan-albatross-phoebastria-immutabilis) *Phoebastria immutabilis*, who at the age of at [least 70](https://medium.com/usfwspacificislands/worlds-oldest-known-wild-bird-turns-70-and-returns-to-midway-atoll-23e95f7232e6) continues to visit and breed on the [Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge](https://www.acap.aq/news/news-archive/60-2013-news-archive/1434-acap-breeding-site-no-36-midway-atoll-black-footed-laysan-and-short-tailed-albatrosses-within-a-world-heritage-site) in the North Pacific.  Most recently, we heard not of Wisdom (who is taking a well-earned [year off](https://www.acap.aq/latest-news/4230-wisdom-the-oldest-known-laysan-albatross-returns-to-midway-atoll-in-her-eighth-decade?highlight=WyJ3aXNkb20iLCJ3aXNkb20ncyIsIid3aXNkb20nIiwiJ3dpc2RvbScsIiwiJ3dpc2RvbSIsMjAyMV0=) from breeding) but of one of her chicks now breeding on the island ([click here](https://www.acap.aq/latest-news/4283-wisdom-the-world-s-oldest-known-albatross-gets-a-grandchick?highlight=WyJ3aXNkb20iLCJ3aXNkb20ncyIsIid3aXNkb20nIiwiJ3dpc2RvbScsIiwiJ3dpc2RvbSIsMjAyMl0=)).

 “Hatched in December of 2010, [Wisdom's] chick was banded with identification number N333 before it took flight in June of 2011.  More than a decade later in March of 2022, N333 along with his mate, is now raising a chick of their own!”

 [https://youtu.be/21nZv-wwgoU?fbclid=IwAR3ww-Wq9WQBhHRBjwvQLEDWiOezWd00PnLchqzS2kmb0SpMmvXnCdSAReU](https://youtu.be/21nZv-wwgoU?fbclid=IwAR3ww-Wq9WQBhHRBjwvQLEDWiOezWd00PnLchqzS2kmb0SpMmvXnCdSAReU)

 Watch this short video of Wisdom's "grandchick" being fed its parents N333 (Wisdom’s 2010/11 chick) and mate DH00, produced by [USFWS](https://www.fws.gov/) volunteer Daniel Rapp.  Enjoy!

 And watch an [earlier video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJv1cKtvPy8) of Wisdom’s grandchick, also by Daniel Rapp.

 News from [Friends of Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge](https://www.facebook.com/FriendsofMidwayNWR/).

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 06 April 2022*