The bar-tailed godwit holds the record for nonstop flights at approximately 7,500 miles, while Arctic terns migrate about ...

Bar-tailed godwit One hero of the East Asian-Australasian Flyway is the bar-tailed godwit. The tawny bird may look unassuming, but its annual migration is nothing less than remarkable. An ...

Godwit House nestles in the Northumbrian landscape sensitively. The home, built for a client closely involved in the design development from the outset, is strikingly different but settled in its ...

One of the birds released in 2017 back in the Fens at Manea Out of 55 black-tailed godwit eggs saved from muddy flooded fields in The Fens, 38 chicks have been fledged in captivity this year.

And for good reason: Some of the most astonishing feats of endurance are performed by long-distance migrants, such as the nine-day non-stop flight of the bar-tailed godwit across the Pacific Ocean.

William Costa, project manager and lead aviculturist at WWT, said: “Without ongoing efforts to restore wetlands around the Fens there would probably be no black-tailed godwit chicks fledging in ...

Bar-tailed godwits have been spotted in the region ... Their call is onomatopoeic, which means it sounds similar to their name, going ‘godwit, godwit’. Subramaniam says that their exact ...

The newly hatched black-tailed Godwit will be raised as part of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust's Godwit Futures project Rare birds have hatched from eggs rescued from fields where severe flooding ...

Some birds, like the bar-tailed godwit, have an instinctive ability to migrate at birth. Some, however, must follow their parents to migrate and learn their route for future years.