Very good article on Red Knot Migration Research

These are really amazing little birds.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/manomet/redknotflightrecord/prweb4560994.htm

Wow, you're right Pelle, they are amazing little birds. They're fairly small and to be able to fly 5000 miles without stopping is just mind boggling. It's hard enough to think they breed in the Artic. Thanks for sharing this, it was interesting.

Nice one!

Quite a coincidence, just been reading two other similar papers, one on waders, with the suggestion that Sharp-tailed Sandpiper can probably do 11,000 km non-stop, same as Bar-tailed Godwits:
http://www.plosbiology.org/article/fetchObjectAttachment.action?uri=info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1000362&representation=PDF

But for total distance, it's Arctic Tern, at 80,000 km per year - more than 3 times what that Knot did!
http://www.arctictern.info/carsten/pdf/egevang_arte-migration_pnas.full.pdf
That's 2½ million km in a 30 year lifespan . . . equivalent to three times to the moon and back!

Resin