Chasing an endless summer, one shorebird species undertakes a grueling annual journey from the Arctic to the tip of South ...

The five-month-old fowl, who continuously flew for 8,425 miles from Alaska to southern Australia, beat the record set last year by a different Bar-Tailed Godwit A bar-tailed godwit just broke a world ...

Bird flies 7,500 miles nonstop. Staying in the air for 11 days straight, a bar-tailed godwit (Limosa Lapponica) flew from ...

A bar-tailed godwit, a shorebird weighing only a few hundred grams, completed an astonishing non-stop flight of about 13,560 ...

A young bar-tailed godwit appears to have set a non-stop distance record for migratory birds by flying at least 13,560 kilometers (8,435 miles) from Alaska to the Australian state of Tasmania, a bird ...

There are only about 50 breeding pairs of black-tailed godwit in the UK Two cyclists are riding 600 miles in eight days to raise funds for a wading bird conservation project hit by coronavirus ...

The juvenile bar-tailed godwit flew from Alaska to northeast Tasmania via a route stretching at least 13,560km, in 11 days, 1 hour, arriving on October 24. Birders say this astonishing effort – ...

When Godwit Days board members (and I, as media liaison) met early on Friday, March 13, (not an auspicious date in normal times), we dutifully sat six feet apart or called in remotely. We were faced ...

The Godwit Days Spring Migration Birding Festival is going virtual this year, with a bevy of free programs taking place April 16 to 18. Godwit Days was launched in 1996 to promote the diversity of ...

The sighting of a rare wader has seen hundreds of excited birdwatchers descend in Somerset this weekend after it took a 4,000-mile detour to England. Each spring the Hudsonian Godwit heads from South ...

A tireless bird “designed like a jet fighter” has been tracked flying more than 7,500 miles from Alaska to New Zealand, setting a new record for non-stop avian migration. The bar-tailed godwit set off ...

A bar-tailed godwit just broke a world record for marathon bird flight. According to satellite tag data, the five-month-old fowl flew continuously from Alaska to southern Australia for a total of ...