"BrandonBucks"
Posted on 11/10/2021 12:34:15 AM PST by blueplum
A plucky migrating godwit that captured New Zealand’s attention after it was forced to make a dramatic U-turn back to Alaska after 33 hours of non-stop flight has finally touched down in the country.
Every year, the Eastern bar-tailed godwits, or kuaka in Māori, make one of the longest avian migration flights in the world, travelling from their breeding ground in the Arctic, across the Pacific, to New Zealand...
..This year, a female godwit, identified as 4BYWW by the bands on her legs, was confirmed as having made the longest flight ever recorded by a land bird....But one unlucky godwit, an adult male known as 4BWRB, was forced to take a large U-turn over the Pacific Ocean, finishing up back at its Alaska take-off point after 57 hours of constant flight....
...Woodley has a particular fondness for the extraordinary efforts godwits go to before migration. They replace all their feathers to ready themselves for the next migratory flight and undergo physiological changes to enable them to store fat more efficiently....
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
I hope he gets his $450,000 payment.
"BrandonBucks"
“after it was blown 2,000km back to Alaska”
That’s nothing. Ask Kamala - it’s 4398 km from Sacramento, CA to Washington, DC.
Rather than worry about the effects of climate change on these plucky little birds, perhaps they should stop lading them with leg bands and tracking devices.
What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen godwit?
“Godwit 4B24B is a courageous bird, failed to make the journey in one nonstop flight three years in a row, but he won’t give up and has now arrived safely in New Zealand “
Really, did they make an exception for their vaccine mandate, after first telling the bird to get lost?
59 km/hr, if they don’t stop for coconuts.
Thank you for that.
Listen, in order to maintain air-speed velocity, a godwit needs to beat its wings 43 times every second, right?
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