Bar-tailed godwits are the world record-holders for nonstop flight — they can travel from Alaska to Australia in little more than 11 days — but their habitat is being threatened by fertiliser pollution from farms and suburbs.
About 20,000 shorebirds migrate from the Northern Hemisphere to Pumicestone Passage in Moreton Bay, which was listed by the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance in 1999.
Last year pollutant loads in the Pumicestone Passage significantly increased from low to high.
