She just flew in from New Zealand and boy are her wings tired.Holy freaking Christ!!! Wow. I know from earlier papers published on this bird that there was substantial empirical evidence that Bar-tailed Godwits make horrificly long non-stop migrations. Now we have the evidence.
Early last month, a female Bar-tailed Godwit, a type of shorebird, completed an epic journey from New Zealand to Alaska and back, a trip that included the longest flight ever recorded for a land bird, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
Holy buckets.
Anyone who studied bird behavior and migration in my generation heard wow-stories about the distance that Arctic Terns migrate. However those Terns do it in spits and spurts from the Arctic to the Antarctic. This Bar-tailed Godwit left Alaska and beat ass south and didn't stop until she was in the land of Steinlager beer.
I'll bet she wanted to get the hell away from any state that would elect Lisa Murkowski, Ted Stevens and Don Young. That has to be it.
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"Holy buckets". You're so cute.
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