A migratory bird broke world record by flying 13,560 kilometres continuously across the Pacific for 11 days without landing even once. This peculiar behaviour of bar-tailed godwit was discovered after ...

Bruce M. Beehler is a naturalist and author. His most recent book is “Flight of the Godwit: Tracking Epic Shorebird Migrations.” Could anything be more humbling to the puffed-up human race than the ...