Sooty Shearwaters arrive at Surfers Beach ....Longest Animal Migration Measured! These Birds Flies 40,000 Miles a Year!

The Sooty Shearwater migration happening now just off shore at Surfer's Beach is the 
Longest Animal Migration Measured!
These Birds Flies 40,000 Miles a Year!  Clouding the skies by the thousands, Sooty shearwaters migrate nearly 40,000 miles (64,000 kilometers) a year, flying from New Zealand to the North Pacific Ocean every summer in search of good.

Their extensive summer trek is the longest animal migration ever recorded electronically.

They fly in large figure eight patterns over the Pacific from their breeding grounds in New Zealand to their seasonal feeding grounds off the coasts of California, Alaska, and Japan.

The birds leave New Zealand in the Southern Hemisphere's winter—summer in the Northern Hemisphere—and take advantage of prevailing winds along different portions of their migration route.

Only the Arctic tern, which migrates between the Arctic and Antarctica, rivals the Sooty Shearwater in distance traveled in a single migration.