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One real tracked animal · Birds

Red kite

Milvus milvus

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temperature
colour = temperature the animal moved through

12,947 km tracked over 1,920 days.

12,947 kmdistance
1,920days tracked
1,784fixes
19°Ctemperature range
What the track shows

Followed for 5 years and 3 months, from June 2017 to September 2022, across 1,784 recorded positions.

It ranged between 43°N and 51°N, never leaving the northern hemisphere.

The water and air it moved through ran from 3°C to 22°C.

It averaged 6.7 km a day, every day, across the whole tracking period.

It finished within 6 km of where it started, a round trip closed almost exactly.

Of the 320 species followed here, this animal covered more ground than 65% of them.

This species is poached or persecuted, so the positions shown here are shifted by up to 20 km from where the animal really was. The route, its scale and its timing are unchanged; only the exact location is withheld.