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One real tracked animal · Birds

Surf scoter

Melanitta perspicillata

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temperature
colour = temperature the animal moved through

9,680 km tracked over 312 days.

9,680 kmdistance
312days tracked
98fixes
23°Ctemperature range
What the track shows

Followed for 10 months, from February 2005 to December 2005, across 98 recorded positions.

It ranged between 28°N and 62°N, never leaving the northern hemisphere.

The water and air it moved through ran from -4°C to 19°C.

It averaged 31 km a day, every day, across the whole tracking period.

It finished 263 km from where it started, roughly back in the same region.

Of the 320 species followed here, this animal covered more ground than 58% of them.