Satellite tags tracked a shorebird the size of a pigeon across the open Pacific in a single unbroken flight. To do it, the bird rebuilds its own body before takeoff, then flies on stored fat for more than a week.
A female bar-tailed godwit fitted with a satellite transmitter left western Alaska and flew 11,680 kilometers, about 7,250 miles, straight across the Pacific Ocean to the North Island of New Zealand.… [+6872 chars]