Gray wolf migration route
12 Gray wolf tracks from animals tagged in Yellowstone National Park, USA. Pick one and press play to draw its route day by day.
- Scientific name
- Canis lupus
- Tagged in
- Yellowstone National Park, USA
- Years recorded
- 2019 to 2020
- Animals on this page
- 12 (of 18 in the dataset, longest records first)
Drawing the map.
Records by animal
| Animal | Recorded | Days | Distance | Longest day | Countries |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0907F | 2019-01-01 ~ 2020-05-16 | 263 | 1,310 km | 27 km | 1: United States of America |
| 1200M | 2019-02-20 ~ 2020-05-16 | 223 | 1,173 km | 41 km | 1: United States of America |
| 1047M | 2019-01-01 ~ 2020-03-02 | 197 | 1,066 km | 27 km | 1: United States of America |
| 1233M | 2020-01-01 ~ 2020-05-16 | 137 | 657 km | 17 km | 1: United States of America |
| 1235F | 2020-01-01 ~ 2020-05-16 | 137 | 821 km | 30 km | 1: United States of America |
| 1014M | 2019-01-01 ~ 2019-05-16 | 136 | 1,058 km | 37 km | 1: United States of America |
| 1105M | 2019-01-01 ~ 2019-05-16 | 136 | 756 km | 17 km | 1: United States of America |
| 1118F | 2019-01-01 ~ 2019-05-16 | 136 | 491 km | 23 km | 1: United States of America |
| 1155M | 2019-01-01 ~ 2019-05-16 | 136 | 721 km | 18 km | 1: United States of America |
| 1232M | 2020-01-01 ~ 2020-05-16 | 136 | 630 km | 17 km | 1: United States of America |
| 1239F | 2020-01-02 ~ 2020-05-16 | 129 | 627 km | 40 km | 1: United States of America |
| 1005F | 2019-01-01 ~ 2019-05-15 | 128 | 577 km | 18 km | 1: United States of America |
Distance adds up straight lines between one point per day. The real path was longer.
Countries are counted only where a daily point falls inside a border. Points at sea are not counted.
Red List status
We only show a status after a person has checked it on the IUCN site. Not checked yet.
Where this record comes from
Citation (as given)
Stahler DR. 2026. Data from: Study "Wolves, Stahler, Yellowstone National Park" [part]. Movebank Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.5441/001/1.717
License: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
Original data (DOI): doi:10.5441/001/1.717
We reduced the original data to one point per day and removed points that jump away from the days around them.