Bar-tailed godwit B6 surely deserves to be honored as 2022 Alaska Athlete of the Year!
A record-setting flight of 8,425 miles nonstop in 11 days — what an amazing feat.
Thank you to the biologists and ornithologists who trudged through the tundra to install transmitters and make this finding possible. Thank you also to the ADN for publishing such smile-inducing news.
— Jenny Leguineche
Anchorage
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