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One real tracked animal · Birds

Trumpeter hornbill

Bycanistes bucinator

date
temperature
colour = temperature the animal moved through

287 km tracked over 487 days.

287 kmdistance
487days tracked
56fixes
4°Ctemperature range
What the track shows

Followed for 1 year and 4 months, from October 2007 to February 2009, across 56 recorded positions.

It ranged between 31°S and 31°S, never leaving the southern hemisphere.

Remarkably, it stayed inside a narrow thermal band the whole time, between 19°C and 23°C.

It averaged 0.6 km a day, every day, across the whole tracking period.

It finished within 21 km of where it started, a round trip closed almost exactly.