New World Record!
A female bar-tailed godwit was recorded to have flown from Alaska to New Zealand non-stop. That's 7,145 miles of continuous flying. That must have been one sexy kiwi waiting for her when she arrived.
It's the longest nonstop bird migration ever measured, according to biologists who tracked the flight using satellite tags.
The bird, a wader called a bar-tailed godwit, completed the journey in nine days.
In addition to demonstrating the bird's surprising endurance, the trek confirms that godwits make the southbound trip of their annual migration directly across the vast Pacific rather than along the East Asian coast, scientists said.
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