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🌍 Nature never stops to amaze me! 🐦 Take the bar-tailed godwit, for instance. These majestic birds are able to fly over 11,000 kilometers (6,835 miles) each way from Alaska to New Zealand and Australia. 😯 What's truly astonishing is that some of them accomplish this incredible feat without any stopovers! 🔗 In this article, I explain how their bodies transform to enable such non-stop flights 👇 :
https://medium.com/the-environment/why-bar-tailed-godwits-can-fly-nonstop-from-alaska-to-new-zealand-1ac110b1ac54


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A bar-tailed godwit (credit: No-longer-here on Pixabay)
A bar-tailed godwit (credit: No-longer-here on Pixabay)


  • Harrison wambui

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    Let's conserve the environment

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    • Tabitha Kimani

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      Lets protect the nature and that is in it.

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      • Annett Michuki..

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        beautiful birds that's needs our protection

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        • ance Star

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          Let's conserve the wild bird cretures

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