One real tracked animal · Birds

Andean condor

Vultur gryphus

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colour = temperature the animal moved through

4,024 km tracked over 1,631 days.

4,024 kmdistance

1,631days tracked

102fixes

2°Ctemperature range

What the track shows

Followed for 4 years and 6 months, from March 2015 to September 2019, across 102 recorded positions.

It ranged between 1°S and 1°N, crossing the equator 25 times.

Remarkably, it stayed inside a narrow thermal band the whole time, between 23°C and 25°C.

It averaged 2.5 km a day, every day, across the whole tracking period.

It finished 133 km from where it started, roughly back in the same region.

This species is poached or persecuted, so the positions shown here are shifted by up to 20 km from where the animal really was. The route, its scale and its timing are unchanged; only the exact location is withheld.