On the Move: Animal Migration Tracker

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Follow migrating animals on a map: white storks, cranes, honey buzzards, turtle doves, gulls, shrikes, wheatears, curlews, hawks, vultures, ospreys, snow geese, Canada geese, bald eagles, blackpoll warblers, peregrine falcons, a blue whale and a loggerhead turtle. Animals with a working GPS tag show their last position and its date. The others show where they usually are on this day, from a full year of their own published tracking data. A thick line shows where the journey began, a thin line where it usually goes next. Names come from the researchers where they gave one; the other animals carry the first name of a famous biologist or scientist from their part of the world.

v1.2 — Added seasonal migration journeys for plains zebras and green turtles.

Tracking data (Movebank, CC0 and CC BY studies only; used under their licences, without warranties):
White Stork: Wolfgang Fiedler, LifeTrack White Stork Vorarlberg, CC BY
White Stork: Wolfgang Fiedler, LifeTrack White Stork Bavaria, CC BY
Common Crane: Petras Kurlavičius, Common Crane 2020 (Lithuanian University of Educational Studies; LEU), CC0
Common Crane: Elena Ilyashenko, 1000 Cranes. Russia. Common Crane., CC BY
European Honey Buzzard: Dr. Daniel Schmidt-Rothmund, Raptors NABU Moessingen public, CC BY
European Honey Buzzard: Thomas Alerstam, European Honey-Buzzard, Southern Sweden, CC0
European Turtle Dove: Frédéric Jiguet, Habitrack European Turtle Dove, CC BY
Lesser Black-backed Gull: Eric Stienen, DELTATRACK - Herring gulls (Larus argentatus, Laridae) and lesser black-backed gulls (Larus fuscus, Laridae) breeding at Neeltje Jans (Netherlands), CC0
Red-backed Shrike: Anders Tøttrup, Migration of red-backed shrikes from southern Scandinavia (data from Pedersen et al. 2018), CC0
Red-backed Shrike: Anders P. Tøttrup, Migration of male and female red-backed shrikes from southern Scandinavia (data from Pedersen et al. 2019), CC0
Northern Wheatear: Movebank Data Repository, Data from: Locally adapted migration strategies: Comparing routes and timing of northern wheatears from alpine and lowland European populations [Austria], CC0
Far Eastern Curlew: Movebank Data Repository, Data from: Study "Full annual cycle tracking of Far Eastern Curlew (Numenius madagascariensis)", CC0
Broad-winged Hawk: Laurie Goodrich, Broad-winged Hawk habitat use, range, and movement ecology, CC BY
Turkey Vulture: David Barber, Vultures Acopian Center USA GPS, CC BY
Osprey: Barb Jensen, Pandion haliaetus Osprey - SouthEast Michigan, CC0
Osprey: Mark Martell, Osprey in North and South America 1995-2002 (Martell), CC BY
Snow Goose: Chris Williams, Delmarva Wintering Waterfowl AIV and Poultry, CC0
Canada Goose: Manon Sorais, North-East American Canada goose migration 2015-2021, CC0
Bald Eagle: NYSDEC, NYSDEC Raptor Tracking, CC0
Blackpoll Warbler: DeLuca, William V., A boreal songbird's migration across North America and the Atlantic Ocean, Setophaga striata, CC0
Blue Whale: Daniel Palacios, Blue whales Eastern North Pacific 1993-2008 - Argos data, CC BY
Loggerhead Turtle: Movebank Data Repository, Data from: Latitudinal cline in the ratio of foraging dichotomy in the North Pacific population of loggerhead turtles revealed a priority conservation area, CC0
Loggerhead Turtle: Yong-Rock An, Marine bioresource conservation and restoration research, CC0
Peregrine Falcon: Michael Yates, Earthspan Peregrines, CC BY
Peregrine Falcon: Kurt K. Burnham, Peregrine Falcon, High Arctic Institute, northwest Greenland, CC0
Plains Zebra: Bartlam-Brooks HLA, Harris S. 2013. In search of greener pastures: zebra migration. Movebank Data Repository, CC0. Recorded journeys shown only during their season.
Green Turtle: Hays GC, Esteban N, Rattray A. 2024. Green turtles, Chagos Archipelago, Western Indian Ocean. Movebank Data Repository, CC0. Recorded journeys shown only during their season; nesting areas excluded.
Map places: Natural Earth. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Species photos, cropped and converted to greyscale for e-ink (modified from the originals). Licensed CC BY 4.0, without warranties:
White Stork: (c) SteveM4560, some rights reserved (CC BY), iNaturalist
Common Crane: (c) Parth Kansara, some rights reserved (CC BY), iNaturalist
European Honey Buzzard: (c) Настя Бухвалова, some rights reserved (CC BY), iNaturalist
European Turtle Dove: (c) Mourad Harzallah, some rights reserved (CC BY), iNaturalist
Red-backed Shrike: (c) SteveM4560, some rights reserved (CC BY), iNaturalist
Northern Wheatear: (c) Jan Ebr & Ivana Ebrová, some rights reserved (CC BY), iNaturalist
Far Eastern Curlew: (c) Tim, some rights reserved (CC BY), iNaturalist
Broad-winged Hawk: (c) Abby Darrah, some rights reserved (CC BY), iNaturalist
Osprey: (c) Richard Stovall, some rights reserved (CC BY), iNaturalist
Snow Goose: (c) Xochitl Zambrano, some rights reserved (CC BY), iNaturalist
Canada Goose: (c) Tser, some rights reserved (CC BY), iNaturalist
Bald Eagle: (c) Matt Felperin, some rights reserved (CC BY), iNaturalist
Blackpoll Warbler: (c) Syd Cannings, some rights reserved (CC BY), iNaturalist
Loggerhead Turtle: (c) Annika Lindqvist, some rights reserved (CC BY), iNaturalist
Peregrine Falcon: (c) Shirley Zundell, some rights reserved (CC BY), iNaturalist
Public domain (CC0): Lesser Black-backed Gull, Turkey Vulture, Blue Whale.
Plains Zebra: safaritravelplus, Wikimedia Commons, CC0. Green Turtle: Bernard Spragg. NZ, Wikimedia Commons, CC0. Both cropped and converted to greyscale. Species illustrations, not photos of the tracked individuals.

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