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From: John Harshman <john.harshman@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: feathers (and one bird)
Date: Sun, 12 May 2024 06:16:49 -0700
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On 5/12/24 5:28 AM, jillery wrote:
> On Sat, 11 May 2024 18:28:08 -0500, DB Cates <cates_db@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 2024-05-11 4:30 PM, FromTheRafters wrote:
>>> JTEM presented the following explanation :
>>>>    DB Cates wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> "In October 2022 a bird with the code name B6 set a new world record
>>>>> that few people outside the field of ornithology noticed. Over the
>>>>> course of 11 days, B6, a young Bar-tailed Godwit, flew from its
>>>>> hatching ground in Alaska to its wintering ground in Tasmania,
>>>>> covering 8,425 miles without taking a single break. For comparison,
>>>>> there is only one commercial aircraft that can fly that far nonstop,
>>>>> a Boeing 777 with a 213-foot wingspan and one of the most powerful
>>>>> jet engines in the world. During its journey, B6—an animal that could
>>>>> perch comfortably on your shoulder—did not land, did not eat, did not
>>>>> drink and <i>did not stop flapping</i>, sustaining an average ground
>>>>> speed of 30 miles per hour 24 hours a day as it winged its way to the
>>>>> other end of the world.
>>>>
>>>> It's not hard to imagine them tagging a bird, tracking it with GPS,
>>>> but to know that it was continuously flapping it's wings?
>>>
>>> https://academic.oup.com/icb/article/48/1/134/627446
>>>
>> I suppose with a rigorous enough definition of "continuous beating" they
>> don't. But they are physically incapable of long gliding like an
>> albatross but it is likely they use continuous beating with occasional
>> short pauses, a common thing. But they know it never stopped or fed
>> (continuous tracking) and it can't land on water without dying (can't
>> feed and can't take off).
>> The only time I've ever seen a shorebird gliding is when it is coming in
>> for a landing.
>> -- 
> 
> 
> Perhaps it was an African Gotwit.

Was that a joke of some kind? If so, what?