Movebank is a free online infrastructure created to help researchers manage, share, analyze, and archive animal movement data. The Movebank project is coordinated by the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, and the University of Konstanz. Movebank collaborates with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and the United States Geological Survey. Movebank is has long-term (>20 years) funding and is intended to become a global data archive for animal movement data. Movebank has over 1,400 users including people from universities, government agencies, and other research and conservation groups around the world. Movebank is a resource open to all researchers and organizations regardless of species, study area, or source of funding. Movebank users retain ownership of their data and can choose whether or not to make their data available to the public. We encourage collaborations between researchers, conservation groups, and government to re-use animal tracking data and give it a second life. The database is designed primarily for data sets that include multiple locations of individual animals, commonly referred to as tracking data. It also allows inclusion of a growing number of additional attributes, including descriptive information about animals and tags, manufacturer-specific measurements, and data from other bio-logging sensors attached to animals. In addition to the main database, the Movebank Data Repository allows researchers to submit data sets in Movebank for publication. Submitted data sets undergo a review process and if accepted receive a persistent identifier (DOI), are licensed, and are archived and made permanently available online by the University of Konstanz.