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Common scoter

Melanitta nigra

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temperature
colour = temperature the animal moved through

10,168 km tracked over 1,062 days.

10,168 kmdistance
1,062days tracked
314fixes
12°Ctemperature range
What the track shows

Followed for 2 years and 11 months, from February 2007 to December 2009, across 314 recorded positions.

It ranged between 54°N and 62°N, never leaving the northern hemisphere.

The water and air it moved through ran from 1°C to 13°C.

It averaged 9.6 km a day, every day, across the whole tracking period.

It finished within 11 km of where it started, a round trip closed almost exactly.

Of the 320 species followed here, this animal covered more ground than 59% of them.