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One real tracked animal · Birds

Tufted puffin

Fratercula cirrhata

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temperature
colour = temperature the animal moved through

599 km tracked over 64 days.

599 kmdistance
64days tracked
21fixes
4°Ctemperature range
What the track shows

Followed for 64 days, from July 1995 to September 1995, across 21 recorded positions.

It ranged between 58°N and 59°N, never leaving the northern hemisphere.

Remarkably, it stayed inside a narrow thermal band the whole time, between 10°C and 14°C.

It averaged 9.4 km a day, every day, across the whole tracking period.

It finished 121 km from where it started, roughly back in the same region.