Hi all,
No doubt you guys know all about this: a bar-tailed godwit tracked on an 11-day 12000 km non-stop flight from Alaska to New Zealand.
Aside of the mind-bogglingness of it all, how does it do it? I know albatrosses and terns are capable of similar journeys but those are open ocean birds, capable of eating on the wing. I suspect clams and mudworms are pretty thin on the ground (in the water?) in the middle of the Pacific. And if it doesn't eat, how does it get water? Boggled minds want to know.
No doubt you guys know all about this: a bar-tailed godwit tracked on an 11-day 12000 km non-stop flight from Alaska to New Zealand.
Aside of the mind-bogglingness of it all, how does it do it? I know albatrosses and terns are capable of similar journeys but those are open ocean birds, capable of eating on the wing. I suspect clams and mudworms are pretty thin on the ground (in the water?) in the middle of the Pacific. And if it doesn't eat, how does it get water? Boggled minds want to know.