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Velvet scoter

Melanitta fusca

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temperature
colour = temperature the animal moved through

661 km tracked over 54 days.

661 kmdistance
54days tracked
55fixes
2°Ctemperature range
What the track shows

Followed for 54 days, from July 2025 to September 2025, across 55 recorded positions.

It ranged between 56°N and 59°N, never leaving the northern hemisphere.

Remarkably, it stayed inside a narrow thermal band the whole time, between 17°C and 19°C.

It averaged 12.2 km a day, every day, across the whole tracking period.

It finished 463 km from where it started, roughly back in the same region.