Longest Bird Flight : Bar-tailed Godwit Flew Without Stop for 6,230 miles in 8 days
Prabhupada, April 25, 1973, Los Angeles: “You cannot jump over like that. Just see how it is doing, a small bird. He has got complete sense how to protect. He’s doing his business. One bird can go seven miles away and he can see where is his food. You cannot see half a mile even. What is the value of your eyes in comparison to that bird? There are so many wonderful things done by the animals, without any scientific knowledge, so-called scientific knowledge. ”
“Small bird leaves scientists gobsmacked”
Wikipedia: The Bar-tailed Godwit migrates in flocks to coastal western Europe, Africa, South Asia, Australia and New Zealand.
In 2007, it was shown to undertake the longest non-stop flight of any bird. Using satellite tracking, birds in New Zealand were tagged and tracked to the Yellow Sea in China. According to Dr. Clive Minton (Australasian Wader Studies Group) “The distance between these two locations is 9,575 kilometres (5,950 mi), but the actual track flown by the bird was 11,026 kilometres (6,851 mi). This is the longest known non-stop flight of any bird. The flight took approximately nine days. At least three other Bar-tailed Godwits also appear to have reached the Yellow Sea after non-stop flights from New Zealand.”[7]
One specific female of the flock, nicknamed “E7”, flew onward from China to Alaska, and stayed there for the breeding season. Then on 29 August 2007, she departed on a non-stop flight from the Avinof Peninsula in western Alaska, to the Piako River, near Thames New Zealand, setting a new known flight record of 11,680 kilometres (7,258 mi). Stray birds from Europe and Asia occasionally appear on both North American coasts
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