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One real tracked animal · Birds

Red-tailed hawk

Buteo jamaicensis

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temperature
colour = temperature the animal moved through

8,363 km tracked over 968 days.

8,363 kmdistance
968days tracked
578fixes
24°Ctemperature range
What the track shows

Followed for 2 years and 8 months, from November 2023 to June 2026, across 578 recorded positions.

It ranged between 38°N and 49°N, never leaving the northern hemisphere.

The water and air it moved through ran from 0°C to 24°C.

It averaged 8.6 km a day, every day, across the whole tracking period.

It finished within 17 km of where it started, a round trip closed almost exactly.

Of the 320 species followed here, this animal covered more ground than 55% of them.

This species is poached or persecuted, so the positions shown here are shifted by up to 20 km from where the animal really was. The route, its scale and its timing are unchanged; only the exact location is withheld.