NON-STOP FLYING BIRD . . .

Longest Nonstop Flight of a Bird Ever Measured .

A female shorebird was found to have flown 7,145 miles (11,500 kilometers) nonstop from Alaska to New Zealand—without taking a break for food or drink.

It's the longest nonstop bird migration ever measured, according to biologists who tracked the flight using satellite tags. The bird, a wader called a bar-tailed godwit, completed the journey in nine days in 2007.