Bar-tailed godwit sets world record with 13,560km continuous flight from Alaska to Australia. A young bar-tailed godwit appears to have set a non-stop distance record for migratory birds by flying at ...

In 2022, a young godwit code-named “B6” that hatched in western Alaska set the record for longest known sustained avian flight. The young bird was tracked flying south across the Pacific, finally ...