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

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.

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 ...