The bar-tailed godwit holds the record for the longest nonstop flight, covering approximately 7,500 miles from Alaska to New Zealand in just 11 days. Known for its remarkable migration ...

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.

Five bar-tailed godwits were sitting together on a ... Their call is onomatopoeic, which means it sounds similar to their name, going ‘godwit, godwit’. Subramaniam says that their exact ...

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 ...

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 ...