Some may remember the Alaska Science Center site
http://alaska.usgs.gov/science/biology/shorebirds/index.html  . If you
go to the updates pages of the bar-tailed godwit section, you will find
some informative accounts that one of the radio-tagged adult females has
set a new long-distance record by flying non-stop 7200 miles over the
Pacific without food or drink over eight days.
        Apparently some of this year's young have been radio-tagged, too. They
will undertake their journey soon, some of the two-month old birds
performing the still more amazing feat of navigating an equal distance
to the New Zealand wintering grounds for the first time, all on their
own. Most of the shorebirds we are seeing now in Ohio are making their
long first migration without adults to lead them, but fortunately only
part of the trip over inhospitable seas.
Wishing them a safe journey,
Bill Whan
Columbus

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