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One real tracked animal · Birds

Spur-winged lapwing

Vanellus spinosus

date
temperature
colour = temperature the animal moved through

40 km tracked over 78 days.

40 kmdistance
78days tracked
77fixes
5°Ctemperature range
What the track shows

Followed for 3 months, from May 2020 to July 2020, across 77 recorded positions.

It ranged between 33°N and 33°N, never leaving the northern hemisphere.

Remarkably, it stayed inside a narrow thermal band the whole time, between 24°C and 29°C.

It averaged 0.5 km a day, every day, across the whole tracking period.

It finished within 0 km of where it started, a round trip closed almost exactly.