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Welcome to our newsroom.

Here you will find the latest information about Firetail and animal tracking.

2026-08-24News

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.

2026-04-14News

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.

2026-02-10CommunityNews

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.

2025-12-19News

Firetail 14.1 — faster loading of large studies

Firetail 14.1 loads large studies faster, lets you jump to timestamps from the event editor and improves the study tree and Movebank groupings.

2025-12-16ArchivNews

New publications featuring Firetail

Our Help Center is now featuring publications featuring Firetail including recent works on behavior, feeding sites and home ranges of fruit bats by Isabella Mandl et al., 2025.

2025-11-27CommunityNews

Limited Offer: Black Friday Special!

We are happy to announce our Black Friday offer 2025! Get 25% off your full license order(s) for quote inquiries submitted between Fri, Nov 28 and Wed, Dec 3!

2025-06-30News

Firetail 14 — now available

Firetail 14 brings Azure base maps, area statistics for convex hulls, burst selection by GPS coverage and support for new e-obs and Vectronic formats.

2025-05-07News

Firetail 13.1 — more file formats, smoother VideoSync

Firetail 13.1 adds Lotek, GPX and UTM coordinate support, Movebank radio-telemetry downloads and a revised VideoSync workflow.

2025-02-12NewsTutorials

Tutorial: Synchronizing Video Resources with Accelerometer Data

We created a new tutorial on Firetail's VideoSync module. This tool can help you to overlay video footage and synchronize it with your tag accelerometer and sensor data.

2024-12-10News

Firetail 13 — now available

We are glad to announce that Firetail 13 is now available, featuring a range of improvements and new features to smoothly integrate your project data.

2024-06-25Archiv

How-to assess predicted categories against known gold standards

Align ground truth data and predictions with Firetail 12.2. With Firetail there is now a fast and easy way to compare predicted categories and known gold standards.

2024-03-20Archiv

Firetail 12 — now available

We are glad to announce that Firetail 12 is now available. Revised annotation module, local file annotation, Vectronic support, and much more.

2024-03-15CommunityNews

Annotation of vulture behavior from acceleration data

We joined forces with tropicalmovementlab.com (OSA conservation) for an article on the behavioral prediction of King vultures featured in the latest e-obs newsletter.

2024-02-26CommunityNews

Now active in 15 countries worldwide — and growing

We are pleased to announce that Firetail is now being used in 15 countries on all continents.

2023-12-22News

Thank you for an exciting 2023

Firetail 11.1.4 release with small but useful improvements. Extended file format support for Vectronic Position files, improved Argos detection, and initial OpenCollar support.

2023-12-13Archiv

Registration open: Smithsonian MoL on Data Viz

We are grateful to contribute to the data viz talks of the Smithsonian Movement of Life presentations.

2023-11-29News

Firetail 11.1.3 released

Great news for everybody that wishes to overlay their behavior datasets (GPS, acceleration, IMU) with gold standards from annotated video observations!

2023-11-21NewsCommunity

Firetail Black Friday 2023

In the week leading up to Black Friday, we are pleased to announce that we on the Firetail team have some great deals for researchers, environmentalists and...

2023-10-27NewsTutorials

Tutorial: csv magnetometer/acceleration uploads to Movebank

A new tutorial is available that explains how to define custom file formats in Movebank that handle one-value-per-line acceleration, magnetometer data and GPS.

2023-10-19News

Firetail 11.1 released

We're happy to announce that Firetail 11.1 is now ready for download!

2023-09-13Community

Wildlabs: visualizing animal tracking data

We're glad to see that Firetail was the first tool to be mentioned in this Wildlabs discussion on how to visualize animal tracking data!

2023-08-10NewsTutorials

Firetail 11 is out now!

Rapid visualisation and analysis for animal telemetry and sensor data

2023-06-21NewsCommunity

Wildlabs — The variety hour — June

A strong focus on acoustic monitoring in this month's Wildlabs variety hour

2023-02-07NewsTutorials

Firetail — Tutorial Series 23.2 — Working with acceleration annotation

Glad to announce the 2nd tutorial on Firetail 10 – ‘working with acceleration annotation’ featuring practical workflows for (1) acceleration annotation with...

2023-01-26NewsTutorials

Firetail 10 tutorial available: density estimations on time ranges

Our first tutorial on Firetail 10 is now available!

2023-01-19NewsFellowship

Introducing Firetail Fellowships

We’re pleased to announce the launch of our Firetail Fellowship Program!

2023-01-10News

Firetail 10 now available

Rapid visualization and analysis of animal data.