A female prairie chicken is putting all other summer road trips to shame. Her circular jaunts around Iowa and Missouri added up to 1,180 miles between April and August--more than 200 miles a month.

 

Bird No. 112, as she's known among the Iowa State University biologists monitoring her via a GPS tracker, was reintroduced to the area from Nebraska by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. The species has mostly disappeared from the region after being driven out by overhunting and the destruction of their habitat by farming.

 

She travelled through 34 counties and up to 24 miles in a single day, according to the Kansas City Star. "It seems like she was searching for something," researcher Jen Vogel told the Star. Whatever it was, she has since settled down, sticking to one county for most of August.