A 5-Month-Old Bird Flew 8,400 Miles Without Landing — Its First Migration Ever

In October of twenty twenty-two, a young bar-tailed godwit — a shorebird only about five months old — lifted off from the coast of Alaska and pointed itself out over the open Pacific. It had never made the journey before. It had no parent to follow, no map, and nowhere to rest, because ahead of it lay nothing but thousands of miles of ocean. Eleven days later, having never once touched land, water, or food, it came down in Tasmania — roughly eight thousand four hundred miles from where it started. It was the longest non-stop flight ever recorded for any bird, and it was flown by a juvenile on its very first migration. This video follows that record-breaking journey across the map: where the little godwit went, how far and how fast it flew, and the question scientists still cannot answer about how a bird that young finds its way across half the world alone. We stick to what its satellite tag actually recorded. Disclaimer: This video is for educational and informational purposes and is based on documented scientific tracking data. #BarTailedGodwit #BirdMigration #Nature