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Von der decken's hornbill

Tockus deckeni

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temperature
colour = temperature the animal moved through

432 km tracked over 1,142 days.

432 kmdistance
1,142days tracked
1,060fixes
3°Ctemperature range
What the track shows

Followed for 3 years and 2 months, from March 2013 to April 2016, across 1,060 recorded positions.

It ranged between 0°N and 0°N, never leaving the northern hemisphere.

Remarkably, it stayed inside a narrow thermal band the whole time, between 28°C and 31°C.

It averaged 0.4 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.