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  Learned about the bar-tailed godwit today. Nine fucking days. Non stop. Yukon to New Zealand.

  

  The bar-tailed godwit breeds in Alaska and Siberia. When the cold season approaches, the shorebirds stage in the Yukon River delta and take flight. Next stop: New Zealand. That’s 7,000 miles, the entire length of the Pacific Ocean, without stopping — the longest migration for any bird. Scientists established the migration route using bird bands, although satellite tracking devices were used to confirm the birds don’t stop flying the entire nine-day journey.

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  • but what is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?Gnash
  • lol^ I asked siri that the other day_niko
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  • You're a fucking godwit, man!jagara
  • That's cool. Birds rock.stoplying

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