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Message 1609236 - Posted: 4 Dec 2014, 22:39:46 UTC

The bar-tailed godwit has returned to our shores for another summer. The birds migrate mainly from Siberia (but some do come from Alaska and Mongolia) to southern Australia and N.Z. before returning and have been recorded flying non-stop for 11,000kms in 9 days.

http://www.news.com.au/national/south-australia/bar-tailed-godwit-makes-a-10000km-trip-from-its-northern-arctic-breeding-grounds-back-to-adelaide/story-fnii5yv4-1227145309949

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Message 1609413 - Posted: 5 Dec 2014, 8:57:14 UTC

I don't know how those little birds are able to fly so far without refueling.
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Message 1609546 - Posted: 5 Dec 2014, 19:34:50 UTC

Wow... that's impressive :)
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Message 1609673 - Posted: 6 Dec 2014, 2:57:43 UTC - in response to Message 1609546.  

Wow... that's impressive :)

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Message 1609682 - Posted: 6 Dec 2014, 3:23:39 UTC
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Now you dont see this in Scandinavia anymore so often.

This very day I heard something like a Black Bird.
In december you normally hear crows and magpies...
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Message 1611932 - Posted: 10 Dec 2014, 22:23:45 UTC

Do the birds in Australia and N.Z. fly upside down?

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Message 1611938 - Posted: 10 Dec 2014, 22:30:24 UTC - in response to Message 1611932.  

Do the birds in Australia and N.Z. fly upside down?


Not that I've notice though some do like hanging upside down from their perches. :-)

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