{"id":1240,"date":"2010-09-14T11:08:40","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T15:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=1240"},"modified":"2016-11-03T09:46:21","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T13:46:21","slug":"long-distance-flyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/omg_animals\/long-distance-flyer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bar-Tailed Godwit flies non-stop for eight days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doing the same thing for a long time can be tricky, like standing on one foot, or jumping and definitely flying. The Bar-Tailed Godwit (<em>Limosa lapponica<\/em>) is the record breaker for this, flying a non-stop eight day migration from Alaska to New Zealand covering an astounding 11,000 kilometers.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11053\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11053\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11053 \" title=\"bar tailed godwit\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/grass_bar_tailed_godwit.jpeg\" alt=\"bar tailed godwit bird tundra\" width=\"560\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/grass_bar_tailed_godwit.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/grass_bar_tailed_godwit-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/grass_bar_tailed_godwit-768x513.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/grass_bar_tailed_godwit-696x465.jpeg 696w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/grass_bar_tailed_godwit-629x420.jpeg 629w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11053\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2010\/06\/100609102052.htm\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2010\/06\/100609102052.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<h5><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Earth Rangers<\/a> is a non-profit organization that works to inspire and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/bbtw\/resources.html\">educate<\/a> children about the environment. At EarthRangers.com kids can play <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/games\/\">games<\/a>, discover <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/category\/omg-facts\/\">amazing facts<\/a>, meet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/animals\/\">animal ambassadors<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bringbackthewild.com\/\">fundraise<\/a> to protect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/bbtw\/about.html\" target=\"_self\">biodiversity<\/a>.<\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bar-Tailed Godwit is one of the longest flyers. It travels from Alaska to New Zealand in 8 days without stopping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[665,13,409,931],"tags":[62,106,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-1240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allbirds","8":"category-omg_animals","9":"category-omg-facts","10":"category-all","11":"tag-birds","12":"tag-flying","13":"tag-migration"},"pp_force_visibility":null,"pp_subpost_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_force_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_subpost_visibility":null,"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}