Eat Worms

And fly non stop for a week and a half. Godwits. Unique to NZ and China. Somehow, and for how long? – these birds know the favourable winds to assist the migration to enjoy summer in both hemispheres. And breed chicks – who ‘get it’ to migrate and have chicks, for thousands and thousands of generations.

I use a GPS to locate family in small town NZ.

Miranda Shorebird Centre on the Firth of Thames was sunny, busy with ‘bird people’, the migration with flocks of these birds had started. Telescopes were set up by volunteers made it possible to intrude on their patch of mud.

Low tide is when the Godwits feed on the Bristle Worms – just a bit longer then your hand and the birds build up the fat reserves in their bodies – the fuel to fly to China.