Animal migration has fascinated humans for millennia ... such as the nine-day non-stop flight of the bar-tailed godwit across the Pacific Ocean. Most people think of migration as the seasonal ...

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.

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 ...