Bar-tailed godwit can fly from Alaska to New Zealand non-stop!

🌍 Nature never stops to amaze me!

🐦 Take the bar-tailed godwit, for instance. These majestic birds are able to fly over 11,000 kilometers (6,835 miles) each way from Alaska to New Zealand and Australia.

😯 What's truly astonishing is that some of them accomplish this incredible feat without any stopovers!

🔗 In this article, I explain how their bodies transform to enable such non-stop flights 👇 :

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)