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, ...

The bar-tailed godwit is a quick flyer, which means that it can cover long distances in a reasonable time. A comparison can be made with a completely different group of long-distance travellers ...

A bar-tailed godwit (Limosa lapponica) just flew for 11 days straight from Alaska to New Zealand, traversing a distance of 7,500 miles (12,000 kilometers) without stopping, breaking the longest ...

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.

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.

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 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 ...

A bar-tailed godwit tracked by scientists flew 1,200 miles before hitting headwinds and turning back to Alaska. Last week it finally made it all the way to New Zealand.

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.

Discover Your Inner Godwit. ... In 2007, however, a small bird left Scott in the dust. Scientists discovered that bar-tailed godwits could fly from Alaska to New Zealand, non-stop.