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 bird, tracked by a satellite tag, broke a record when it flew the 8,4000 miles from Alaska to the Australian state of Tasmania. The bird flew for 11 days without stopping for food or rest. Good ...

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 ...

A 4-month-old bar-tailed godwit appears to have set a new world record for the longest nonstop bird flight. The young bird, known as B6, made the 8,400-mile journey from Alaska to Tasmania in just 11 ...

THE animal kingdom’s record for the longest non-stop flight has been broken by a migratory wading bird. The bar-tailed godwit clocks up an epic 11,000 kilometres in the air during its annual migration ...

A conservation group has tracked a migration for the ages, in which a male bar-tailed godwit flew from Alaska to New Zealand without taking a single break. As the Guardian reports, the bar-tailed ...

CANBERRA, 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The bar-tailed godwit, a shore bird, has set a new standard for bird migration. A team of scientists recently tracked a godwit as it flew from Alaska to New Zealand — a distance of almost 7,200 miles ...

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 ...