11days...recording the longest non-stop flight by a bird
The Guinness Book of World Records announced that it had recorded the longest non-stop flight ever by a bird.
A Godwit bird, known for its long beak, covered a distance of 13,500 kilometers without stopping when it flew from the US state of Alaska to the island of Tasmania, south of Australia.
The bird, which was fitted with an electronic chip to track its path, left Alaska on October 11, 2022 and then landed in Tasmania 11 days later, on a trip during which it did not get a meal or rest.
The bird succeeded in breaking a previous record held by another “Godwit,” as it flew further by 217 miles (about 350 kilometers).
Tasmanian Wildlife Department official Eric Wooler told Guinness World Records that the bird that broke the record “may have lost half its weight or more during continuous flight day and night.”
He added: “If a Godwit bird lands on the water, it dies immediately.” “He has nothing to swim with and no way to land on the surface of the water.”
"So if the bird had fallen into the ocean from stress or bad weather had forced it to land on the water, that would have been the end of it," Waller continued.
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