Wind tunnel helps show how birds fly so far without water

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Wind tunnel helps show how birds fly so far without water 
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Canadian scientists, using a state-of-the art device, discover that 
long-distance migrators burn muscle and organs instead of fat.
 
By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times
 
September 9 2011, 4:42 PM PDT
 
Twice a year, bar-tailed godwits migrate more than 7,000 miles so 
they can spend their summers in Alaska and their winters in New Zealand. 
 
Bar-headed geese fly about 2,000 miles between Mongolia and India, 
traveling at altitudes high enough to clear the top of Mt. Everest. 
 
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http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-migrating-birds-muscle-20110910,0,1539627.story 
 
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