Cuckoo traveled 16 countries in longest bird migration ever recorded

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One of the longest migrations recorded by any land bird is about to be completed.

Using a satellite tag, scientists have monitored a cuckoo that has just flown more than 7,500 miles (12,000km) from southern Africa to its breeding ground in Mongolia.

The bird has survived ocean crossings and high winds after traversing 16 countries.

It has been, say scientists, "a mammoth journey". The satellite-tagged common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus), named Onon after a Mongolian river, set off from its winter home in Zambia on 20 March.

Onon has crossed thousands of kilometres of the Indian Ocean without stopping, flying at an average speed of 60km/h and traversing countries as far apart as Kenya, Saudi Arabia and Bangladesh.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52815286

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Gaga’s world tours look from the back 

[Rat Q 539]

he mustve smelled cocoa puffs

[Guest]

Ok well leave her alone and fly away

[Flora 695]

Oh wow. Has this just dethroned the Bar-tailed Godwit as the furthest non-stop migration, or was that beaten already? Need to look into it. 
 

PS, I see your posts quite often on here but I’m not usually logged in. Love them all! 

[Renie 7,909]

Cuckoo is right!!

Nature never ceases to amaze me! Like how did he even know where to go? How long was he flying continuously over the ocean with no food or sleep?! 

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Next stop: Chromatica 

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and then there is me who isn’t even able to make it from the couch to the fridge