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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Photo: Alaska Bird Makes Longest Nonstop Flight Ever Measured


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A shorebird called a bar-tailed godwit, like the one pictured here, was recently found to have flown 7,145 miles (11,500 kilometers) nonstop from Alaska to New Zealand, the longest uninterrupted bird migration ever recorded, scientists say.

Photograph courtesy USFWS