Bird Watching: Bar-tailed Godwit's marathon migration 7,200 miles nonstop , 1 by Grasmussen

Grasmussen wrote:
Bar-tailed Godwit E7 few nonstop from Alaska to New Zealand last fall 7,200 miles in 8 days 5 hours. The USGS Alaska Science Center offers a web site to track the migration of the Bar-tailed Godwit's returning to Alaska in a two stage migration. The return flight makes a refueling stop at the Yellow Sea in China. The following link will take you to the site:
http://alaska.usgs.gov/science/biology/shorebirds/barg_updat...
This photo of the three stage annual migration is from the USGS site.
Gary


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