Name: Conversation with Bruce M. Beehler, author of Flight of the Godwit
Start: 2025-09-09T17:00:00-04:00
Location: 111 Adams Ave, Lewes, DE, United States, Delaware 19958

Join us in the library or online for a conversation with Bruce M. Beehler, author of Flight of the Godwit, a chronicle of Beehler's journey through 37 states and 9 Canadian provinces, from Texas to Alaska to Canada's High Arctic, to uncover the secrets of 7 magnificent shorebirds, the world’s greatest nonstop travelers.
Flying more than 8,000 miles from Alaska to eastern Australia without stopping to eat or rest, the Bar-tailed Godwit holds the record for the longest nonstop migration of any land bird in the world. Flight of the Godwit invites readers on ornithologist Bruce M. Beehler's awe-inspiring journey in search of North America's largest and farthest-flying shorebirds. Driving 35,000 miles between 2019 to 2023, Beehler sought birds he dubs the "Magnificent Seven": Hudsonian Godwit, Bar-tailed Godwit, Marbled Godwit, Whimbrel, Long-billed Curlew, Bristle-thighed Curlew, and Upland Sandpiper. Beehler interweaves colorful fieldwork stories and rich details on local culture with the natural history and biology of shorebirds—including evolution, the physics of migration, orientation, homing, foraging, diet, nesting, parental care, wintering, staging, elusive "super-migrators," and the importance of conservation efforts.
This event is co-sponsored by The Sussex Bird Club.