Each year the Bar-tailed Godwit flies 11,000 km in nine days from Alaska to arrive at Kinka Beach in Central Queensland. The Godwit is just one species that makes the annual return flight from the shores of Australia and New Zealand to their breeding grounds in the Arctic. The remarkable annual circuit is called the East Asian-Australasian Flyway and passes through 23 countries. The Bar-tailed Godwit was the inspiration for multi-media artist Nanette Balchin’s print for the Overwintering Project. The project aims to raise awareness about migratory shorebirds, and the need to protect their habitat.