Godwits

     From-Mexico

     To-New zealand

• Godwits need food as fuel to help them fly.
• Godwits fly extraordinary distances yet they aren’t particularly different from other migrating birds.
• Godwits can fly about 12 000 km at one time – further than any other known bird.
• Godwits eat worms,crabs,crustaceans,bivalve,polychaetes and mud.
• Godwits normally weighs about 300 grams.
• Godwits have turns of leading the other godwits and has to work their hardest.
• Godwits do not have waterproof feathers.
• The Godwits migrate across the world in 8-9 days.
• They arrive in New Zealand in September then leave in the late February/early March.
• Godwits flap there wings a lot of times so they can fly.
• When it’s cold Godwits leave Alaska and they go to somewhere warmer.

         

L.I I was interested to learn more about Godwits, so I did research on it.