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TIL bar-tailed godwits, a type of bird, breed in Alaska, and then migrate south for the winter - they fly to New Zealand in one non-stop trip which can take up to 9 days, not even stopping to feed. The round-trip migration for this subspecies is over 29,000 km.

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