Apparently feeling like he or she had something to prove to the world, a young bar-tailed godwit flew 8,435 miles non-stop in 11 days, taking off from the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta on the Bering Sea in Alaska to the Australian island of Tasmania, the AP reports. The cry for attention was recorded by a team of researchers who had attached a tiny solar-powered GPS tracker to the bird’s leg shortly after it hatched in April or May. The feathered attention whore took flight on October 13th, cruised over the Aleutians, then turned southeast towards Kiribati and New Caledonia, then past the Australian mainland, before touching down in Tasmania on the 24th, rubbing it in the faces of not just other birds, but animals that can’t even fly at all. What a dick.