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 (kuaka) has been crowned New Zealand's Bird of the Year after three weeks of close competition, heated campaigning and scandal. These lunatic long-distance fliers have the ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Good morning. I'm A Martínez. Flying direct from Los Angeles to Australia means at least 15 hours on a plane. But a bird named the bar-tailed godwit smashed the Guinness record by flying the ...