The bar-tailed godwit, a plump shore bird with a recurved bill, has blown the record for nonstop, muscle-powered flight right out of the sky. A study Wednesday reported godwits can fly up to 7,242 ...

Bar-tailed godwits spend their summers in the Arctic, where they breed and build up their energy reserves before flying south for the winter. Ben / Flickr under CC BY-ND 2.0 Last month, scientists ...

THE animal kingdom’s record for the longest non-stop flight has been broken by a migratory wading bird. The bar-tailed godwit clocks up an epic 11,000 kilometres in the air during its annual migration ...

The bird, tracked by a satellite tag, broke a record when it flew the 8,4000 miles from Alaska to the Australian state of Tasmania. The bird flew... Migrating bird, a bar-tailed godwit, flies from ...

Oct. 30—godwit, research, nome, USGS, bar-tailed godwit, migration This is the time of year when Alaska's migratory birds uproot and move to warmer places. But one shorebird in particular made history ...

The bar-tailed godwit, known as AKK, has returned to Thompson Beach, near Dublin, after a 10,000km trip from its northern Arctic breeding grounds, and a quick stopover in China. The migratory ...