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One real tracked animal · Birds

Whooping crane

Grus americana

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temperature
colour = temperature the animal moved through

14,059 km tracked over 2,177 days.

14,059 kmdistance
2,177days tracked
97fixes
12°Ctemperature range
What the track shows

Followed for 5 years, from November 2011 to November 2017, across 97 recorded positions.

It ranged between 35°N and 44°N, never leaving the northern hemisphere.

The water and air it moved through ran from -1°C to 11°C.

It averaged 6.5 km a day, every day, across the whole tracking period.

It finished 475 km from where it started, roughly back in the same region.

Of the 320 species followed here, this animal covered more ground than 66% of them.