If holiday flight seems long, so consider this: a migratory bird just broke the world record by flying across the entire Pacific Ocean from north to south without stopping.
The distance was 13,560 kilometers and the bird flew continuously for 11 days straight.
The holder of the new record is only five months old, a young red-tailed deer. So it flew from Alaska to Australia for the winter and arrived in Tasmania on Tuesday of last week. The bird is known only by its satellite identifier 234,684.
Also in Finland red foxes can be spotted. They nest in Lapland and fly south to the Mediterranean for the winter.
On the other hand, the south is much further for red terns that breed in Alaska. They search far across the Pacific Ocean to Indonesia and Australia.
Why don’t they fly a little closer, say to California?
In any case, the record distance now set by the red fox is pretty incredible. It is twice as long as the distance from Helsinki to New York, and 3,000 kilometers more than the distance between Helsinki and Cape Town.
Finnair’s current flight route over the North Pole and Alaska to Tokyo is approximately 13,000 kilometers and takes 13 hours by plane. But there are no refreshments or rest on the bird’s route.
Red-eared really flew continuously, without stopping in between to eat or sleep. It is not known, however, whether the red-bellied wagtail can snooze while flying in the same way as frigatebirds.
It can manage without eating, because it devours as much food as possible before the trip, and in flight its body uses up fat reserves. They are also able to shrink their internal organs to lighten themselves.
The average speed of the bird has been 50 kilometers per hour, and every day the bird has crossed an area the size of Finland, 11 days straight.
Wild trips are routine for rednecks. The previous record was 13,000 kilometers and was set by an adult individual last year.
Red-eared is a bird slightly smaller than a crow and belongs to the crow family. In Wikipedia, the vocalization of the Red-tailed Godwit in its flight is described as “monotonously whiny”.
Isn’t that a bit rude to say?
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