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One real tracked animal · Birds

Mountain plover

Charadrius montanus

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temperature
colour = temperature the animal moved through

9,100 km tracked over 682 days.

9,100 kmdistance
682days tracked
207fixes
27°Ctemperature range
What the track shows

Followed for 1 year and 10 months, from August 2015 to June 2017, across 207 recorded positions.

It ranged between 35°N and 39°N, never leaving the northern hemisphere.

The water and air it moved through ran from -2°C to 25°C.

It averaged 13.3 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.

Of the 320 species followed here, this animal covered more ground than 56% of them.