On 16/06/10 18:02, Elizabeth Compston wrote:
A friend in America just sent an interesting article "7,000 Miles Non
Stop and No Pretzels", about our migrating godwits and other migrating
birds. I thought that some members of COG may be interested. I went
to the internet, looked up New York Times and then searched for the
above article. It came up.
There was a report on the BBC web site about three years ago of a female
bar-tailed godwit fitted with a satellite tracker that made a non-stop
migration of some 11500km:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6988720.stm.
Nick
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