The post A 4-Month-Old Bird Just Flew 8,425 Miles Without Stopping appeared first on A-Z Animals. In 2022, a young bar-tailed godwit made the most extraordinary journey. These birds are known for ...

A migratory bird broke world record by flying 13,560 kilometres continuously across the Pacific for 11 days without landing even once. This peculiar behaviour of bar-tailed godwit was discovered after ...

A bird has flown non-stop, apparently, from Alaska to the Australian state of Tasmania. And now this young bar-tailed godwit — a member of the sandpiper family — appears to have set a non-stop ...

Bar-tailed godwits spend their summers in the Arctic, where they breed and build up their energy reserves before flying south for the winter. Ben / Flickr under CC BY-ND 2.0 Last month, scientists ...

This bird flies for 11 days without stopping—and doesn't even pause to eat or sleep The animal kingdom is full of extraordinary endurance stories, but few are as astonishing as the migration of the ...

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

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A 4-month-old bar-tailed godwit appears to have set a new world record ...

Bruce M. Beehler is a naturalist and author. His most recent book is “Flight of the Godwit: Tracking Epic Shorebird Migrations.” Could anything be more humbling to the puffed-up human race than the ...