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  • Migration of the Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica.Bar-tailed Godwits have recently (March 2007) been shown to undertake the longest non-stop flight of any bird. Using satellite tracking, birds in New Zealand were tagged and tracked all the way to the Yellow Sea in China. According to Dr. Clive Minton (Australasian Wader Studies Group) "The distance between these two locations is 9,575 km, but the actual track flown by the bird was 11,026 km. This is the longest known non-stop flight of any bird. The flight took approximately nine days. At least three other Bar-tailed Godwits also appear to have reached the Yellow Sea after non-stop flights from New Zealand."
  • Image created by USGS Alaska Sciencce Center
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current09:29, 6 August 2007416×408 (31 KB)Kelson (cropped)
09:25, 6 August 2007600×410 (23 KB)Kelson (- watermark)
00:59, 14 April 2007600×410 (32 KB)Sabine's Sunbird (*Migration of the Bar-tailed Godwit ''Limosa lapponica''. *Image created by USGS Alaska Sciencce Center *Source = [http://www.werc.usgs.gov/sattrack/shorebirds/overall.html USGS])
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