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Eurasian oystercatcher

Haematopus ostralegus

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temperature
colour = temperature the animal moved through

20,658 km tracked over 1,739 days.

20,658 kmdistance
1,739days tracked
2,012fixes
12°Ctemperature range
What the track shows

Followed for 4 years and 9 months, from December 2016 to September 2021, across 2,012 recorded positions.

It ranged between 53°N and 69°N, never leaving the northern hemisphere.

The water and air it moved through ran from 6°C to 18°C.

It averaged 11.9 km a day, every day, across the whole tracking period.

It finished within 5 km of where it started, a round trip closed almost exactly.

Of the 320 species followed here, this animal covered more ground than 76% of them.