Kuaka, bar-tailed godwit

fly the distance of New Zealand to New York City, and back each year

Where you can find them:

In Lake Wairarapa where every year about 200 godwits hang around the mudflats on the eastern lake shore in the spring and summer months.They do a massive round trip of 30,000km from New Zealand to Alaska.

What they look like:

Long beaked with mottled feathers and a chestnut or grey body.

Did you know:

Kuaka mums lay lay eggs that weigh 11 per cent of their own mass!