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Out now: Firetail 15
We're announcing Firetail release 15 featuring a new widget interface, track-track episodes, revised HUD viewport, FireREACH utility distributions, FFT KDE & e-obs data management.
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movement analysis and visualization for wild animal research
movement analysis and visualization
for wild animal research
unlock your data – get Firetail
What is Firetail?
Firetail is a desktop application that lets you load GPS, acceleration, and sensor data from tagged wild animals, visualize their movements on interactive maps, and annotate behavior patterns at scale.
Connected to Movebank — the world's largest animal tracking database — Firetail handles multi-year, multi-animal projects with millions of data points. No programming required.
15+
countries worldwide
3
platforms (Win/Mac/Linux)
25M+
GPS fixes per project
100M+
sensor samples supported
Trusted by researchers and integrated with
fast overview
Load all your tag's sensor data, location, and acceleration. Get a complete picture of your project!
read more →efficient workflows
Be amazed by Firetail's range of use cases for annotation, visuals, and reporting tasks. Fast and reliable.
read more →in-depth analysis
Complex analysis benefits from Firetail's interactive views, statistics and data embeddings.
read more →“I can't say enough about your product! It's made life much easier for us to monitor our birds”
“I'm impressed at how fast Firetail is, well done!”
“a whole new level of behavioral research [...] The scientist gets up close to the studied animal again”
How it works
01
Connect
Link your Movebank account or import tag data files directly from e-obs, Technosmart, and other manufacturers.
02
Explore
Visualize GPS tracks, acceleration bursts, and sensor data on interactive maps. Navigate days, weeks, or years.
03
Annotate
Label behavior patterns with FireSOM, Firetail's ML module. Create gold standards and predict at scale.
04
Report
Export publication-ready visuals, statistics, and data slices. Share findings with your team instantly.
One powerful application for your challenges
Conservation
- • supervise long time ranges
- • activity reports and range analysis
- • perturbation of behavior
Research
- • speed up routine tasks
- • quickly identify crucial patterns
- • create gold standards
Monitoring
- • data evaluation on-site
- • identify drop-off regions
- • identify suspicious trajectories
Data Services
- • secure storage and provision
- • tailored analysis pipelines
- • high-quality solutions
Need a specific capability?
Commission a custom feature and get exactly what your project needs. It becomes part of Firetail for everyone.
News
News
Firetail 14.2 — Vectronic burst converter
Firetail 14.2 converts Vectronic motion data from Inventa Desktop to bursts and reads line-wise quaternion and magnetometer data.
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New selected publication section: featuring Goodman et al.
Our list of selected publications are now embedded as first class member of Firetail resources. Proud to feature the latest addition by Goodman et al. 2026.
read more →great showcases — no code
immerse yourself in your data from the very first second and access a wide range of analysis tools and visualizations
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Whether you're a student, a funded researcher, or an institution — there's a path for you.
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