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title: "N333: the next generation.  The 2017 chick of Wisdom, the oldest known Laysan Albatross, is back on Midway incubating"
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# N333: the next generation.  The 2017 chick of Wisdom, the oldest known Laysan Albatross, is back on Midway incubating

*![N333 06 Dec 2025 Daniel Wrapp](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/N/N333_06_Dec_2025_Daniel_Wrapp.jpg)\Wisdom’s offspring N333 shows its egg and colour band on 06 December 2025, photograph by Dan Rapp*

 Wisdom the well-known seventy something Laysan Albatross *Phoebastria immutabilis* on Midway Atoll is back for the new breeding season as [recently reported](https://www.acap.aq/latest-news/wisdom-is-back) in *ACAP Latest News*.  The latest information from the Facebook page of the [Friends of Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge](https://www.facebook.com/FriendsofMidwayNWR) is that Wisdom’s 2010/11 chick, colour banded red N333 and considered to be a male, was spotted incubating on Midway’s Sand Island on 06 December by USFWS biologist and FOMA volunteer Dan Rapp of N333.  Watch a 27-s [video](https://www.facebook.com/reel/2088483321901572) he then made of N333 preening.

 N333 was first recorded breeding in the 2021/22 season.  For a complete history, past chicks and new photos, [click here](https://friendsofmidway.org/wisdoms-lineage-prevails/); also see [several articles](https://www.acap.aq/search?q=N333&Search=&w1=before&d1=&w2=before&d2=) in *ACAP Latest News*

 *John Cooper, Emeritus Information Officer, Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses* *and Petrels, 18 December 2025*