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The champion of the long-distance migrants

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Oct 15, 20254:32Science & Medicine

The bar-tailed Godwit is a tall, long-billed sandpiper that has in recent years been crowned the champion long-distance migrant among, well, all animals, thanks to increasingly small satellite tracking devices.

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Published Oct 15, 2025, 4:32 long, audio available.

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