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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bar-tailed-godwit-bird-non-stop-distance-record-8435-mile-flight-alaska-to-australia/

This terrified creature would later prove to be quite the little badass.



5 months old
Flew 13,560 kilometers with no stops in 11 days and one hour(over 8,325 miles in 265 hours) 
Averaged over 51 kilometers per hour or 31.7 miles per hour.

Tires me out just thinking about it.

I love the article's headline:

Bird appears to set non-stop distance record

How do they know that? Is it because no other bird has stepped forward to claim the record? Maybe untagged birds routinely circumnavigate the globe, and this slacker only flew 8,400 miles.

All kidding aside, congrats to him/her. Great story to tell the kids one day.

Did the dumbass not see Hawaii?