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One real tracked animal · Birds

Broad-winged hawk

Buteo platypterus

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temperature
colour = temperature the animal moved through

20,181 km tracked over 347 days.

20,181 kmdistance
347days tracked
156fixes
19°Ctemperature range
What the track shows

Followed for 11 months, from July 2015 to June 2016, across 156 recorded positions.

It ranged between 3°N and 55°N, never leaving the northern hemisphere.

The water and air it moved through ran from 9°C to 28°C.

It averaged 58.2 km a day, every day, across the whole tracking period.

It finished within 0 km of where it started, a round trip closed almost exactly.

Of the 320 species followed here, this animal covered more ground than 76% 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.