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Ivory gull

Pagophila eburnea

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temperature
colour = temperature the animal moved through

229,791 km circling the high Arctic, rarely off the ice.

229,791 kmdistance
1,065days tracked
479fixes
24°Ctemperature range
What the track shows

Followed for 2 years and 11 months, from August 2018 to July 2021, across 479 recorded positions.

It ranged between 59°N and 84°N, never leaving the northern hemisphere.

The water and air it moved through ran from -22°C to 2°C.

It averaged 215.8 km a day, every day, across the whole tracking period.

It finished within 5 km of where it started, a round trip closed almost exactly.

No other animal in this catalog of 320 species covered more ground.