One real tracked animal · Birds

Royal penguin

Eudyptes schlegeli

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colour = temperature the animal moved through

2,669 km tracked over 40 days.

2,669 kmdistance

40days tracked

81fixes

5°Ctemperature range

What the track shows

Followed for 40 days, from October 1999 to December 1999, across 81 recorded positions.

It ranged between 61°S and 55°S, never leaving the southern hemisphere.

Remarkably, it stayed inside a narrow thermal band the whole time, between 1°C and 6°C.

It averaged 66.9 km a day, every day, across the whole tracking period.

It finished within 6 km of where it started, a round trip closed almost exactly.

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.