Bar-tailed Godwits in the March issue of the National Geographic Magazine

National Geographic magazine is publishing a series of bird-related feature articles in 2018, in honor of ‘The Year of the Bird‘.

One in the March issue entitled “The Epic Journeys of Migratory Birds” is about bird migration and focuses on Bar-tailed Godwits, and features Jan van Gils, the Alaska USGS people, Jesse Conklin, and several other migration scientists that you will know!

visit theThe Epic Journeys of Migratory Birds page on the National Geographic website:

Featured image: Bar-tailed godwits in the mud at the Heathcote and Avon Estuary in Christchurch, New Zealand. ©Jonathan Harrod, Minden Pictures for the National Geographic.