A 5-month-old bar-tailed godwit recently flew non-stop for 265 hours as it migrated more than 8,000 miles from Alaska to Tasmania.
A juvenile bird recently broke the world record for the longest continuous bird flight on its very first long-haul journey across the Pacific, after the youngster got mixed up and accidentally landed in the wrong place.
The previous record holder was another bar-tailed godwit, an adult male known as 4BBRW, which flew 8,100 miles from Alaska to New South Wales in Australia in October 2021, according to The Guardian . In doing so, the same bird ended up breaking its own personal best of 7,500 miles from Alaska to New Zealand, which it set in October 2020. Most bar-tailed godwits finish their migrations in New Zealand or mainland Australia.
Juvenile bar-tailed godwits make their maiden migration up to six weeks after their parents have already flown south for the winter — which is unusual for birds, Sean Dooley, editor of the magazine Australian Birdlife, told The Guardian. Researchers are still unsure how these birds manage to pull off this astounding feat of navigation. However, the birds normally migrate in large flocks, Dooley said, which may help them collectively work it out.
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