[Unedited] Michael McCarthy with Krista Tippett
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Wading Birds - They're Not Like the Birds in Your Backyard
The largest migration flight ever recorded was a bartailed godwit, which flew from alaska to new zealand without stopping in two thousand and seven days. They're not like the birds in your back yard, a you fede, even though those are beautiful. I mean, i love cardinals and american goldfinchers, i think, and mocking birds. So i was very on. And i'm surethero'd be a substantial number of birders who would probably think the same because, you know, you have an elegant suite of wading birds that breed on the coast of the united states....
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