New Mapping The Life Of Eric Livingstone Seagull

LifeWatch are currently tracking gulls as well as march harriers using GPS units as well as CartoDB powered Google Maps. thirty birds were tracked over the saltation as well as summer.

Unfortunately the alive real-time map is no longer of much utilization equally the birds accept flown southward for the wintertime as well as are out of attain of the project's antennas. However LifeWatch has created some interesting maps using the information tracks from the saltation as well as summer.

These include an intensity map of Eric, a Lesser Black-backed Gull, breeding inwards the colony of Zeebrugge. The map shows Eric's movements over ii months, revealing Eric's most visited locations, including his frequent day-trips to Bruges. Using the same information LifeWatch too created a map showing his paths per day. In this map Eric's daily flying paths are colored yesteryear hateful solar daytime to demonstrate how his flying designing changed over the ii months.

Vizzuality's Torque library was too used to exercise a fascinating animated map showing all Eric's movements over the ii months inwards only 150 seconds.


The Bear Tracker from Polar Bear International is tracking the movements of polar bears inwards Hudson Bay.

The Google Map shows electrical current as well as yesteryear sea H2O ice levels on Hudson Bay, as well as too the crude oil locations of polar bears. Users tin plow over notice click on the private polar acquit markers to thought the bear's rail as well as too utilization a fourth dimension slider command to run into the locations of the bears over time.


Ocearch's Global Shark Tracker has extended its shark tracking app to rail sharks off the eastward coast of North America.

The Global Shark Tracker allows anyone to discover the navigational designing of 47 tracked sharks. The sharks accept been tagged amongst satellite tracking technology for the role of shark conservation as well as their movements tin plow over notice last followed on this Google Maps based tracker. The Global Shark Tracker is at i time tracking 35 sharks off the coast of South Africa as well as 12 off the eastward coast of America.

The tracker includes a pose out of useful filters which allows the user to search for private sharks yesteryear get upwardly or to thought the trails of only manful somebody or woman somebody sharks or of mature or young sharks.


The Nova Southeastern University Oceangraphic Research Center are too using Google Maps to rail a pose out of sharks off the eastward coast, the Gulf of United Mexican US as well as elsewhere around the world.

The Guy Harvey Research Institute Tracker allows the user to conduct the sharks to thought on the map yesteryear place or yesteryear private shark name.

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