February 2, 2017
Feeling exhausted after walking from Kirner-Johnson to the Taylor Science Center every day? While we struggle to reach a few thousands steps a day, flocks of intrepid shorebirds called Bar-tailed Godwits cover 7,000 miles in 9 days in a nonstop flight. Their migration is the longest known nonstop flight of any bird and also the longest journey without pausing to eat. It means no food breaks, no water breaks, no sleep breaks, no pausing–– just pushing through cyclones, storms, headwinds, flappity flap-flap for days and nights. Last spring, I was fortunate enough to observe them up close. Here is the story about these tough, long-distance fliers and me.
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