Bar-Tailed Godwit

Bar-Tailed Godwit is a large, strongly migratory wader with red breeding plumage, long legs and a long upturned bill. Its recorded food includes bristle-worms and shellfish on coastal mudflats and estuaries. It breeds on Arctic coasts and tundra from Scandinavia to Alaska. The English name comes from the black-and-white barred tail and upper tail coverts (Wikipedia, general species account). The subspecies baueri flies non-stop across the Pacific from Alaska to New Zealand, the longest known non-stop flight of any bird, on a round trip of over 29,000 km. (Wikipedia, general species account).

Bar-tailed godwits breed on Arctic coasts and tundra from Scandinavia to Alaska, and overwinter on coasts in temperate and tropical regions of Australia and New Zealand. The migration of the subspecies Limosa lapponica baueri across the Pacific Ocean from Alaska to New Zealand is the longest known non-stop flight of any bird, and also the longest journey without pausing to feed by any animal. The round-trip migration for this subspecies is over 29,000 km (18,020 mi). (Wikipedia, general species account).