Nature is impressive: flying non-stop from Alaska to New Zealand

Nature never stops impressing me: bar-tailed godwits can fly from Alaska to New Zealand non-stop! That is 11,000 km / 6,835 miles, equal to the longest flight (Frankfurt - Buenos-Aires is 11,486 km / 7,137 miles). Here I explain how this is possible: 

https://medium.com/the-environment/why-bar-tailed-godwits-can-fly-nonstop-from-alaska-to-new-zealand-1ac110b1ac54

A bar-tailed godwit (credit: No-longer-here on Pixabay)