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 ...

Shorebird flocks occasionally fly close to the vessel, offering views rarely seen from shore. Marine mammals such as harbor seals, sea lions and harbor porpoises are also regularly observed.

Environmental groups fear a road could be built over the home of Europe's largest common seal colony thanks to the Government's planning reforms ...

Another Australian bird, the bar-tailed godwit, holds the world record for flying more than 13,500 kilometres non-stop in just 11 days during its migration south from Alaska to Tasmania.

At the edge of Nome Creek in Nome, Alaska, a bar-tailed godwit is reflected in the water. Bruce Beehler When it comes to migratory prowess, the bar-tailed godwit is the champion, bar none.

The bar-tailed godwit holds the record for nonstop flights at approximately 7,500 miles, while Arctic terns migrate about 90,000 kilometers annually. Red knots travel nearly 15,000 kilometers ...

Over the course of 11 days, B6, a young Bar-tailed Godwit, flew from its hatching ground in Alaska to its wintering ground in Tasmania, covering 8,425 miles without taking a single break.

Spending Northern Hemisphere summers in the Arctic and overwintering in Australia and New Zealand, the remarkable bar-tailed godwit undertakes the longest non-stop migration of any bird.

Clive is an adult bar-tailed godwit. The only reason we know about his epic, failed migration attempt is because of a trailblazing tracking project.

Clive the bar-tailed godwit being released ahead of his attempted migration to Mauritania A migratory bird has "stunned" experts by flying a round trip of more than 2,000 miles in four and a half ...

According to information currently available about the black-tailed godwit, habitat loss in its breeding grounds is noticeable and so is the corresponding decline in its number.

The juvenile bar-tailed Godwit, known as B6 or by its identification tag number “234684”, flew an incredible distance of a total of 13, 560 km, from Alaska to the shores of Tasmania in ...