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Phoca vitulina

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Phoca vitulina (Phoca vitulina) is the marine animal followed in the study “churchill harbour seals”. Positions come from a satellite tag. The newest published position was recorded 4 Dec 2021, 4:00 am. Released by Movebank. The study is finished, so this is an archive, not a live location.

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Satellite photograph centred on the latest published position of this Phoca vitulina.
Satellite photograph of the latest published position. Imagery: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics, and the GIS User Community.
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Tamara's note

churchill harbour seals: 2115 historical reports newly added to this application.

Movement summary

Window 16 Sept 2021, 11:00 pm → 4 Dec 2021, 4:00 am · 702 accepted reports · algorithm movement-summary/1.0.0

Reported-position distance
1,702 km
Segments / gaps
4 / 3
Longest gap
4.7 days
Median interval
2 h
Fastest segment
11.8 km/h between reports
Flagged for review · 702 flags
  • source qc · 702 flags across 702 reports
    Source QC flags: sensor:argos-doppler-shift.

3 gap(s) longer than the 72 h gap rule; the route during each gap is unknown.

Deployments

TagTechnologyStartedEndedStatusReports
satellite argossatellite_argos——Status unknown702

Planet Journal

Journey available

churchill harbour seals

churchill harbour seals: 2115 historical reports newly added to this application.

Published 27 Oct 2026, 12:45 pm · evidence checked 27 Oct 2026, 12:45 pm

Journey available

churchill harbour seals

churchill harbour seals: 2115 historical reports newly added to this application.

Published 27 Oct 2026, 12:16 pm · evidence checked 27 Oct 2026, 12:16 pm

References

  1. churchill harbour seals (Movebank study 3792819345) link · CC BY-NC 4.0

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