One real tracked animal · Birds

Wandering albatross

Diomedea exulans

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colour = temperature the animal moved through

362,017 km, roughly the distance to the Moon.

362,017 kmdistance

1,402days tracked

2,804fixes

22°Ctemperature range

What the track shows

Followed for 3 years and 10 months, from February 2006 to December 2009, across 2,804 recorded positions.

It ranged between 73°S and 26°S, never leaving the southern hemisphere.

The water and air it moved through ran from -5°C to 17°C.

It averaged 258.3 km a day, every day, across the whole tracking period.

It finished 184 km from where it started, roughly back in the same region.

No other animal in this catalog of 320 species covered more ground.

Whose data this is

Dataset: The Retrospective Analysis of Antarctic Tracking (Standardised) Data from the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
Repository: GBIF
Licence: CC BY 4.0
DOI: 10.4225/15/5afcb927e8162

Ropert-Coudert Y, Van de Putte A P, Bornemann H, Charrassin J, Costa D P, Danis B, Hückstädt L A, Jonsen I D, Lea M, Reisinger R R, Thompson D, Torres L G, Trathan P N, Wotherspoon S, Ainley D G, Alderman R, Andrews-Goff V, Arthur B, Ballard G, Bengtson J, Bester M N, Boehme L, Bost C, Boveng P, Cleeland J, Constantine R, Crawford R J M, Dalla Rosa L, de Bruyn P N, Delord K, Descamps S, Double M, Emmerson L, Fedak M, Friedlander A, Gales N, Goebel M, Goetz K T, Guinet C, Goldsworthy S D, Harcourt R, Hinke J, Jerosch K, Kato A, Kerry K R, Kirkwood R, Kooyma G L, Kovacs K M, Lawton K, Lowther A D, Lydersen C, Lyver P O, Makhado A B, Márquez M E I, McDonald B, McMahon C, Muelbert M, Nachtsheim D, Nicholls K W, Nordøy E S, Olmastroni S, Phillips R A, Pistorius P, Plötz J, Pütz K, Ratcliffe N, Ryan P G, Santos M, Schytte Blix A, Southwell C, Staniland I, Takahashi A, Tarroux A, Trivelpiece W, Wakefield E, Weimerskirch H, Wienecke B, Xavier J C, Raymond B, Hindell M A, Van de Putte A (2024). The Retrospective Analysis of Antarctic Tracking (Standardised) Data from the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research. Version 1.5. SCAR - AntOBIS. Samplingevent dataset. https://ipt.biodiversity.aq/resource?r=scar_raatd_trackingdata&v=1.5 https://doi.org/10.4225/15/5afcb927e8162 accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-12-17. accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-06-27.