Birds 11 - Bar Tailed Godwit

Migratory birds fly many a thousand miles across the glob year after year, to warmer places escape from acute cold weather or vice versa. So does a tiny water bird the Bar Tailed Godwit that travel from Alaska to escape the Arctic Winter, to Tasmania or New Zealand enjoy the cosy warmth of the Antarctic summer, there they nest and breed. They'd fly back months later with their chicks in tow before winter sets in in the Antarctic South. Each flight non-stop about fifteen thousand kilometres, is a world record, a wonder even for migratory birds. How do they save energy for such a long journey non-stop without food or water is an unsolved enigma! What we know about the wonders n' secrets of Nature is SO LITTLE.