Follow migrating animals on a map and see where they travel throughout the year. On the Move turns wildlife tracking data into a simple window onto animal migration, showing the journeys of birds and other animals as they move between breeding, feeding, and wintering grounds.

Choose from species including white storks, cranes, honey buzzards, turtle doves, gulls, shrikes, wheatears, curlews, hawks, vultures, a blue whale, and a loggerhead turtle. When an animal has a working GPS tag, the map shows its latest recorded position and the date it was recorded.

For species without a current GPS position, On the Move uses a full year of published tracking data to show where that species is typically found on the same day of the year. This lets you follow seasonal migration even when there is no current location available.

A thick line shows the journey already travelled, while a thin line shows the typical route ahead. Each screen also includes the animal's name, location, timing, and a rotating fact about the species or individual.

Choose a single species, several species, or let the whole collection take turns. On TRMNL X, Flock View lets you view several animals at once.

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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
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.