The Bar-tailed Godwit flies from Alaska to New Zealand (about 11,000km) in 5-6 days without stopping to rest or feed. They don’t have satellite navigation.

Stop and think about that. There is a time for studying and analyzing what we find in nature, and there is a time for just sitting back in amazement.

If you can manange a 1 hour lecture by Andy McIntosh (Professor of thermodynamics at Leeds University), you will learn to appreciate birds on a whole new level. They are masterpieces of design and engineering.