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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Animals
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Follow your whole flock at a glance. On larger screens like the TRMNL X, when you follow more than one animal, Flock View lists all of them with where they are and where they are heading, and shows one in full on each refresh. The map stays focused on one animal at a time. Smaller screens always show one animal.
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