Bar-Tailed Godwit Sets Record for Longest Bird Flight Going from Alaska to Australia in 11 Days. The five-month-old fowl, who continuously flew for 8,425 miles from Alaska to southern Australia, ...

A rarely seen bird, possibly from Iceland, has been spotted at a Herefordshire beauty spot. According to the birdwatching site, goingbirding.co.uk, a sighting of a black tailed godwit was reported by ...

The five-month-old bar-tailed godwit left Alaska on October 13 and touched down in Ansons Bay in northeast Tasmania, Australia on October 24.

The bar-tailed godwit isn't the only bird to travel extremely long distances. Last year, a rare Steller's sea eagle was spotted in Massachusetts, more than 5,000 miles away from its home in Asia.

Bar-tailed godwits do not have webbed feet and cannot take off from water. ( Bar-tailed godwit , Tom Benson , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 ) Dr Woehler said smaller and cheaper technology was making it easier ...

The bar-tailed godwit - a type of wetland bird - flew from Alaska but took an unexpected turn, and clocked up an extra 500km than it usually would! In doing so, ...

A young bar-tailed godwit appears to have set a nonstop distance record for migratory birds by flying at least 8,435 miles from Alaska to the Australian state of Tasmania, a bird expert said Friday.

The known distance record for a godwit migration is 13,000 kilometers, or nearly 8,080 miles. It was set last year by an adult male bar-tailed godwit with a tag code of 4BBRW that encountered ...

Migrating bird, a bar-tailed godwit, flies from Alaska to Australia without stopping The bird, tracked by a satellite tag, broke a record when it flew the 8,4000 miles from Alaska to the ...

Oct. 28 (UPI) --A bird expert said Friday that a young bar-tailed godwit set the non-stop distance record by flying 8,435 miles from Alaska to Tasmania.The bird was tagged as a hatchling in Alaska ...

Guinness World Records announced a juvenile bar-tailed godwit broke the record for the longest non-stop migration by a bird when it flew 8,435 miles from Alaska to Tasmania, Australia.

A young bar-tailed godwit appears to have set a non-stop distance record for migratory birds by flying at least 13,560 kilometers (8,435 miles) from Alaska to the Australian state of Tasmania, a ...