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The World Bowls Championships will be held in Christchurch, New Zealand, January 2008.

This beautiful place is where the Godwits choose to spend the southern hemisphere summer. Christchurch City Council organises an annual spring celebration to mark the arrival of the first Godwit migrants. The sighting of the birds is signalled by the bells of Christchurch Cathedral, which ring for 30 minutes when the first birds are seen on the Avon-Heathcote Estuary.

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A female godwit was recently tracked using satellite tags and found to fly 7,145 miles (11,500 kilometers) nonstop from Alaska to New Zealand. Biologists say it is the longest nonstop bird migration ever to have been recorded. more

Each September, around 70,000 godwits make the migration from their Alaska breeding grounds to New Zealand, then they fly back the following March.

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