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American bittern

Botaurus lentiginosus

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temperature
colour = temperature the animal moved through

12,085 km tracked over 684 days.

12,085 kmdistance
684days tracked
87fixes
24°Ctemperature range
What the track shows

Followed for 1 year and 10 months, from July 1999 to May 2001, across 87 recorded positions.

It ranged between 27°N and 51°N, never leaving the northern hemisphere.

The water and air it moved through ran from 2°C to 26°C.

It averaged 17.7 km a day, every day, across the whole tracking period.

It finished 310 km from where it started, roughly back in the same region.

Of the 320 species followed here, this animal covered more ground than 63% of them.