Bird migrations in Movebank: Americas

Researchers track migrations of individual birds around the globe using satellite and GPS technology. This video, along with the video "Bird migrations in Movebank: Eurasia" shows the recorded movements of 1,654 individual birds that were tracked between 1992 and 2012. The data represent 58 species, over 2 million locations, and 276,800 tracking days. The movements are shown over the course of a single year—see the date in the lower left corner. The data used to make this video are stored at Movebank, an online database of animal tracking data (movebank.org).