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Kentish plover

Charadrius alexandrinus

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temperature
colour = temperature the animal moved through

6,949 km tracked over 285 days.

6,949 kmdistance
285days tracked
52fixes
18°Ctemperature range
What the track shows

Followed for 9 months, from July 2019 to April 2020, across 52 recorded positions.

It ranged between 20°N and 43°N, never leaving the northern hemisphere.

The water and air it moved through ran from 9°C to 27°C.

It averaged 24.4 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 51% of them.