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How a four-month-old bird flew non-stop for 11 days

Published 1 month, 4 weeks ago
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A young bar-tailed godwit code-named B6 flew for more than 13,000 kilometres from Alaska to Tasmania in 2022. That's the longest known sustained flight by a bird. Avian expert and author Bruce Beehler says we don't entirely understand how it did it — and that should humble us.


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