Bar-tailed Godwit "E7" continues to break records.

[gemfyre]

While working at Broome Bird Observatory, our main focus was migratory waders. The birds at Broome fly from Siberia to Australia and back every year. I also learned that the godwits that fly to the eastern side of the country and New Zealand potentially have the longest single leg migration of any animal in the world - flying from Alaska, across the Pacific, to New Zealand..

E7 proved the speculations were correct.

I'm hoping to get to Broome again in April, so I can farewell these magnificent birds as they form flocks 20,000 strong and wing their way to Siberia.

P.S. I wrote this for wtf_nature but accidentally posted it here first. I think I'll leave it for everyone to read.