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From: John Harshman <john.harshman@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: feathers (and one bird)
Date: Mon, 13 May 2024 06:09:13 -0700
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On 5/13/24 2:22 AM, jillery wrote:
> On Sun, 12 May 2024 06:16:49 -0700, John Harshman
> <john.harshman@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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?
> 
> 
> How quickly you forget the classics:
> 
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8Rn_f75UHs>

So the spelling "Gotwit" was just a typo, then. That's what confused me.