A bar-tailed godwit flew 7,250 miles nonstop from Alaska to New Zealand, going more than eight days without landing, eating or drinking

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Satellite tags tracked a shorebird the size of a pigeon across the open Pacific in a single unbroken flight. To do it, the bird rebuilds its own body before takeoff, then flies on stored fat for more than a week. The post A bar-tailed godwit flew 7,250 miles nonstop from Alaska to New Zealand, going more than eight days without landing, eating or drinking appeared first on Space Daily .