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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Stephen White

Europe's smallest bird flies 400 miles in storm across North Sea in under eight hours

New technology has revealed the remarkable feats of one of nature’s smallest creatures.

A goldcrest, Europe’s smallest bird, flew more than 400 miles across the storm-lashed North Sea from Holland in less than eight hours.

The incredible feat of endurance by the goldcrest has been picked up by Motus, a hi-tech receiver installed at Spurn Bird Observatory on a narrow strip of island jutting out into the sea at Kilnsea on the Yorkshire coast.

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