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One real tracked animal · Birds

Snail kite

Rostrhamus sociabilis

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temperature
colour = temperature the animal moved through

19,346 km tracked over 765 days.

19,346 kmdistance
765days tracked
381fixes
6°Ctemperature range
What the track shows

Followed for 2 years and 1 month, from December 2017 to January 2020, across 381 recorded positions.

It ranged between 33°S and 1°N, crossing the equator 4 times.

Remarkably, it stayed inside a narrow thermal band the whole time, between 22°C and 28°C.

It averaged 25.3 km a day, every day, across the whole tracking period.

It finished within 2 km of where it started, a round trip closed almost exactly.

Of the 320 species followed here, this animal covered more ground than 74% of them.