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What is the longest known non-stop, non-eating migration flight south for the winter?

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What is the longest known non-stop, non-eating migration flight south for the winter?
posted Dec 1, 2022 by Ankur Athari

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About 11,000 km (6,835 mi)
It is flown over 8 to 9 days by the bar-tailed godwit subspecies Limosa lapponica baueri which breeds in Alaska and migrates across the Pacific Ocean to overwinter in New Zealand or eastern Australia. The return journey is almost as demanding, being accomplished in two steps with a stopover in the Yellow Sea. The 4,800 km distance is the length of the staggered migration of the Monarch butterfly south to Mexico.

answer Dec 2, 2022 by Harshita Dhaliwal
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