Fred Astaire - Exploring Albatross Movements - 2008

A project of Albatross Conservation Collaborative.

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Movements of a Black-footed Albatross equipped with a satellite-linked transmitter programmed to operate on a 60-second repetition rate for 6 hours (noon - 6 pm, California time) every day. Only good quality locations (classes 1, 2, 3, 0) are shown as connected filled circles, with the color indicating the timing of the location. Poor quality locations (classes A, B) are shown as black dots.

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This bird is named after Fred Astaire because like BFAL, he liked dance parties. Submitted by Tracy Gill, NOAA.

Fred Astaire stopped transmitting on September 20, 46 days after being tagged. Because the voltage data from the transmitter revealed that the singe AA battery had not been exhausted. This result suggests that the transmitter failed or detached prematurely.

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• This map connects positions generated by the ARGOS system designated as location codes (lc) '3', '2', '1', '0'.
• The static maps also shows locations of class 'A', 'B' as small black circles which are not connected by a route line.
• Bathymetry layers are derived from the GEBCO Digital Atlas published by the British Oceanographic Data Centre on behalf of the IOC and IHO, 2003, and the ETOPO2 Global 2' Elevations published by NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center.
• Sea surface temperature is derived from NOAA's GOES Daily Sea Surface Temperature data.

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