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Pelagic cormorant

Phalacrocorax pelagicus

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temperature
colour = temperature the animal moved through

2,918 km tracked over 352 days.

2,918 kmdistance
352days tracked
70fixes
9°Ctemperature range
What the track shows

Followed for 12 months, from July 2000 to July 2001, across 70 recorded positions.

It ranged between 53°N and 60°N, never leaving the northern hemisphere.

The water and air it moved through ran from 5°C to 14°C.

It averaged 8.3 km a day, every day, across the whole tracking period.

It finished within 12 km of where it started, a round trip closed almost exactly.