Source: The Godwit’s 7,000-Mile Journey: A Migration That Breaks Records – The New York Times
Malcolm Schuyl/Alamy Bar-tailed godwits are avian shape-shifters, whose internal organs go through a “strategic restructuring” before departure. Their gizzards, kidneys, livers and guts shrink to lighten the load for the journey.Credit…Thomas Hanahoe/Alamy […]