The five-month-old fowl, who continuously flew for 8,425 miles from Alaska to southern Australia, beat the record set last year by a different Bar-Tailed Godwit Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at ...

The bar-tailed godwit makes the longest nonstop flight of any bird: From Alaska to New Zealand. And they have to shrink their ...

How is it possible to fly 11,000 kilometers without a single break? The record holder for long distance flight outdoes all human-made aircraft. The bar-tailed godwit has very low energy consumption, ...

A GPS tag allowed researchers track the 11-day 13.5k journey from Alaska to Tasmania Bar-tailed godwits stand on the beach at Marion Bay in Australia's Tasmania state. A young bar-tailed godwit ...

A young bird has become a world record holder by flying 8,425 miles non-stop from Alaska to Australia in 11 days. The five-month-old bar-tailed godwit left Alaska on October 13 and touched down in ...

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Don't miss out on the headlines from Community News. Followed categories will be added to My News. They are a summer migrant that breeds on Arctic coasts and tundra in the northern hemisphere summer.

This is the time of year when Alaska’s migratory birds uproot and move to warmer places. But one shorebird in particular made history this past week after it was tracked flying thousands of miles ...

A bar-tailed godwit recently arrived in New Zealand on its second attempt to get there from Alaska, after a storm had blasted it back north. Keith Woodley of the Pukorokoro Miranda Shorebird Centre on ...

CANBERRA, Australia -- 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 ...

The bird world's long-distance champion is probably savvy enough to cope with climate change, researchers believe. The bar-tailed godwit makes the biggest no-stop migration, flying 11,000km from ...

A bar-tailed godwit just broke a world record for marathon bird flight. According to satellite tag data, the five-month-old fowl flew continuously from Alaska to southern Australia for a total of ...