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A juvenile bar-tailed godwit flew 13,560 kilometres from Alaska to Tasmania in October 2022 without landing once — 11 days continuously over the Pacific with no food or rest, despite never having made the journey before.

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A bird only a few months out of the egg left western Alaska on 13 October 2022 and did not touch land again until 24 October. When the juvenile bar-tailed godwit reached Ansons Bay in north-eastern Tasmania, its satellite track described an uninterrupted trans-Pacific journey lasting 11 days and one hour. Guinness World Records lists the distance as approximately 13,560 kilometres, the longest recorded nonstop migration by a bird.
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