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One real tracked animal · Birds

Striated caracara

Phalcoboenus australis

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temperature
colour = temperature the animal moved through

5,296 km tracked over 2,032 days.

5,296 kmdistance
2,032days tracked
685fixes
4°Ctemperature range
What the track shows

Followed for 5 years and 7 months, from August 2013 to March 2019, across 685 recorded positions.

It ranged between 51°S and 51°S, never leaving the southern hemisphere.

Remarkably, it stayed inside a narrow thermal band the whole time, between 5°C and 9°C.

It averaged 2.6 km a day, every day, across the whole tracking period.

It finished 76 km from where it started, roughly back in the same region.