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One real tracked animal · Birds

Bar-tailed godwit

Limosa lapponica

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temperature
colour = temperature the animal moved through

Crosses the thermal bands the ocean birds follow.

31,507 kmdistance
254days tracked
123fixes
18°Ctemperature range
What the track shows

Followed for 8 months, from February 2007 to October 2007, across 123 recorded positions.

It ranged between 37°S and 63°N, crossing the equator 2 times.

The water and air it moved through ran from 3°C to 21°C.

It averaged 124.1 km a day, every day, across the whole tracking period.

Its last fix was 3,529 km from its first, so the track we have is a one-way journey rather than a closed loop.

Of the 320 species followed here, this animal covered more ground than 86% of them.