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Forgoing layovers and snack stops, a bird known as the bar-tailed godwit has broken the record established for the world’s longest known non-stop bird flight, according to a new study.
The honor goes to a female named “E7″ that continuously flew 7,257 miles across the Pacific Ocean, breaking the previous record set by a Far-Eastern curlew, who flew 4,038 miles nonstop.
She didn’t even glide.
“Bar-tailed godwits use forward flapping flight and seldom ever glide,” lead author Robert Gill, Jr., told Discovery News.
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