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Tagged Animal Movement (TAME)

July 31, 2023

The Tagged Animal Movement Explorer (TAME) is an interactive data visualization tool for exploring spatial and temporal patterns of animal movements.

Below are projects grouped by animals tracked by the USGS Alaska Science Center Wildlife Tracking Collection.

 

Loons

This project contains data collected by the Argos System from satellite transmitters attached to 12 Pacific Loon (data collected through Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center funding), 47 Red-throated Loon, and 85 Yellow-billed Loon. Birds were tracked along coastal regions of Alaska, northern Canada, the contiguous United States, and portions of Russia and Asia.

 

Seabirds

This project contains data collected by the Argos System from satellite transmitters attached to 23 Common Murre, 36 Kittlitz's Murrelets, 1 Larus species, 8 Herring Gull, 9 Glaucous-winged Gull, 19 Glaucous Gull, 19 Northern Fulmar, 8 Pelagic Cormorant, 1 Red-faced Cormorant, 11 Thick-billed Murre, and 2 Tufted Puffin. Birds were tracked along coastal and pelagic regions of Alaska, the contiguous United States, and portions of Asia and Russia.

 

Shorebirds

This project contains data collected by the Argos System from satellite transmitters attached to 9 Marbled Godwit and 32 Whimbrel. Birds were tracked along coastal and inland regions of Alaska, the contiguous United States, and portions of Central and South America.

 

Waterfowl

This project contains data collected by the Argos System from satellite transmitters attached to 53 Black Scoter, 42 Blue-winged Teal, 167 Common Eider, 53 Emperor Geese, 85 Long-tailed Duck, 129 Northern Pintail, 210 Spectacled Eider, 14 Steller's Eider (data collected through USFWS funding), 25 Surf Scoter, 50 Tundra Swan, and 17 Whooper Swan. Birds were tracked across the US, Asia and Russia. 

 

Mammals

This project contains data collected by the Argos System from 921 satellite transmitters attached to adult Pacific walruses in the Bering and Chukchi Seas, in U.S. and Russian waters, 1988-2019.