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King eider

Somateria spectabilis

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temperature
colour = temperature the animal moved through

20,969 km tracked over 778 days.

20,969 kmdistance
778days tracked
136fixes
21°Ctemperature range
What the track shows

Followed for 2 years and 2 months, from August 2007 to October 2009, across 136 recorded positions.

It ranged between 51°N and 71°N, never leaving the northern hemisphere.

The water and air it moved through ran from -12°C to 9°C.

It averaged 26.9 km a day, every day, across the whole tracking period.

Its last fix was 2,328 km from its first, so the track we have is a one-way journey rather than a closed loop.

Of the 320 species followed here, this animal covered more ground than 76% of them.