The Bar-tailed Godwit’s Annual Migration Is Utterly Astounding
2017年9月1日 · Right now, a Bar-tailed Godwit is out over the Pacific Ocean making an eight-day, non-stop flight from Alaska to New Zealand. More than 7,000 miles. No rest. No turning back. Only the great open ocean below. Using satellite tags, Nils Warnock, Executive Director of Audubon Alaska, studied the godwits’ amazing yearly migration. Here’s what ...
Bar-tailed godwit - Wikipedia
The bar-tailed godwit (Limosa lapponica) is a large and strongly migratory wader in the family Scolopacidae, which feeds on bristle-worms and shellfish on coastal mudflats and estuaries. It has distinctive red breeding plumage, long legs, and a long upturned bill.
The Godwit’s Long, Long Nonstop Journey - The New York Times
2022年9月20日 · Tens of thousands of bar-tailed godwits are taking advantage of favorable winds this month and next for their annual migration from the mud flats and muskeg of southern Alaska, south across the...
Bar-tailed godwit flies 13,500km from Alaska to Tasmania, …
2022年10月27日 · The five-month-old bar-tailed godwit smashed the record for long-distance migration following a non-stop, 11-day flight from Alaska to Tasmania. The 13,560-kilometre journey beat the previous record — also held by a godwit — by around 500 kilometres and was documented by researchers across the world.
Movements and Migration - Bar-tailed Godwit - Birds of the World
2020年3月4日 · Complete, long-distance migrant, moving from mostly arctic regions of Northern Hemisphere south, wintering from north temperate to south temperate latitudes of e. Atlantic, nw. Indian, and sw. Pacific oceans (see Distribution: outside the Americas, above).
Bar-tailed Godwit's epic migration - Wildlife in the Balance
2022年9月20日 · Bar-tailed Godwits migrating at 5,000m altitude across the Pacific. The birds navigate by internal compasses and read the stars to know where to go. They fly at an optimal height where the air is thin and they can avoid headwinds.
Juvenile bar-tailed godwit "B6" Sets World Record
2022年11月3日 · A four-month-old bar-tailed godwit known as B6 set a new world record by completing a non-stop 11-day migration of 8,425 miles from Alaska to Tasmania, Australia. This trip represents the longest documented non-stop flight by any animal!
Young godwit makes longest known nonstop flight ever
2024年10月13日 · A four-month-old Bar-tailed Godwit known as B6 set a new world record by completing a nonstop 11-day migration of 8,425 miles (13,558 km) from Alaska to Tasmania, Australia. This trip represents the longest documented nonstop flight by any animal!
The Bar-tailed Godwit undertakes one of the avian world's most ...
The Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica undertakes one of the avian world’s most extraordinary migratory journeys. One bird was recently tracked flying more than 12,000 km from Alaska to New Zealand in 11 days—the longest continuous journey that has ever been recorded for a landbird.
Bar-tailed Godwit - The Danish Bird Migration Atlas
The bar-tailed godwit is a common passage migrant in Denmark in July–September and March–May. The greatest numbers are observed in the Wadden Sea. In Denmark the first bar-tailed godwit was ringed in 1952, with the majority ringed in the second half of the 1950s.