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BTO tagged Cuckoos; The Journey Begins Again
Topic Started: Feb 7 2013, 07:02 PM (8,049 Views)
Night Owl
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:thanks1: for posting the updates Jan it will be interesting to see what Lloyd decides to do :cool3:
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Davebutterflyman
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Many thanks for those latest updates Jan :cool2:
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celticsparrow-Jan
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Chris heading north-west? - 8 Mar 2013
Only low quality signals have been received recently from Chris’s tag but these show that on 4 March and throughout 6 March he was slowly zig-zagging in a north-westerly direction. The last of these transmissions at about 6pm, show him 138 km (86 miles) north-west of the location he was in on 4 March. Where will he be when the tag next transmits?!

Chance heads back to Lake Volta - 8 Mar 2013
Transmissions received yesterday morning show that Chance is still in Ghana and has moved closer to Lake Volta again. Ha has travelled roughly 50km (32 miles) north-west from his last position and appears to be on a narrow river-like section, 42km (26 miles) north of the previous location beside the Lake
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Night Owl
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:thanks1: for the update Jan it's great to see they are making good progress :cool2:
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Davebutterflyman
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Great news Jan and thanks for the updates.
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celticsparrow-Jan
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BB also in Nigeria - 15 Mar 2013
The last transmission received for BB was on 3 March when he was in Cameroon. The newest signal, received yesterday afternoon, shows that he is now approximately 650km ( 400 miles) further NW and has joined Chris in Nigeria. BB is now in the Akwa Ibom Region of the Niger Delta and is about 290km (180 miles) south of Chris.

No change from David, Lloyd and Chance - 15 Mar 2013
As of 13 March, David was still in Cameroon. Other locations received confirm that Lloyd has not moved from his position in the Democratic Republic of Congo and that Chance remains north of Lake Volta, Ghana.

Chris in Nigeria - 15 Mar 2013
Transmissions from Chris' tag on 13 March reveal that he is in Nigeria, having moved 430km (267 miles) WNW from his previous location in Cameroon. Chris is in the Benue region, about 33 km (20 miles) to the west of Nigeria’s border with Cameroon
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Tabatha
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:thanks: for the update Jan. Hope they all make it back safely.
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birdwatchandy
Great Updates Jan. Isn't it fantastic to be able to track there progress.
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Night Owl
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:great: to hear they are all still ok Jan it's about time Lloyd moved on! :giggle:
:thanks1: for posting the updates :cool2:
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Davebutterflyman
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Many thanks for those updates Jan.
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celticsparrow-Jan
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Chris making good progress but it seems Lloyd is in no hurry to move on.

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Chris in Ghana - 18 Mar 2013
Chris has continued moving rapidly westwards and by Saturday morning (16 March) he was apparently settled in Digya National Park, Ghana. He had moved 1075km (667 miles) west in just over 2 days since the previous location in Nigeria. He is the second Cuckoo, following Chance, to make it to Ghana. Although his current location would be a great place for him to carry out his pre-Sahara crossing stop over, last year he did this in Cote d’Ivoire, so it will be interesting to see whether he stops here or carries on west.

Lloyd lagging behind - 18 Mar 2013
Lloyd remains at the location he has held in Sankuru Nature Reserve, DRC, since 19 Feb. He was by far the latest bird to head south from Europe, making the Sahara crossing in early October, so it is interesting that he is late moving north too. We are still waiting to learn for sure whether he will follow the other Cuckoos, which wintered considerably further west, to West Africa or take a different route north.

BB close to Benin border - 18 Mar 2013
BB has continued moving in an approximately north-westerly direction. A location received in the very early hours of Sunday morning (17 March) showed that he was in south-western Nigeria, close to the border with Benin, about 600km (375 miles) WNW of the location he held on 14 March. As there was only a single location we don’t know if he was moving at the time this latest location was received
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Night Owl
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:thanks1: Again for the update Jan i'm interested to see what path Lloyd decides to take :cool2:
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celticsparrow-Jan
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It will be a good thing if the Cuckoos are late to arrive this year the weather needs to get much better .

http://www.bto.org/science/migration/tracking-studies/cuckoo-tracking
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Night Owl
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:thanks1: for the link Jan :yes: if they come back to this they'll turn around and go straight back! :grin:
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Davebutterflyman
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You could not blame them either!

Thanks for the link Jan.
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celticsparrow-Jan
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None of the Cuckoos seem in any hurry to move on ...

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Chris feeding up in Ghana - 28 Mar 2013
Chris has now been in the Digya National Park for 10 days preparing for his next move. Will he do this from Ghana or Ivory Coast, as last year? We do know that he didn't use the same stop-overs on his southward journey as he did the previous year so we will have to wait and see where he will attempt his crossing of the Sahara Desert from this time.

David still in Cameroon - 28 Mar 2013
David is still in the Central Region of Cameroon. He is currently 57km (35 miles) north-west of Cameroon's capital, Yaounde, the second largest city in the country with a population of approximately 2.5 million.

BB remains in Nigeria - 28 Mar 2013
Signals were received from BB’s tag yesterday morning and reveal that he has remained within Nigeria, in the Oyo district close to the border with Benin, where he has been for more than ten days now.

http://www.bto.org/science/migration/tracking-studies/cuckoo-tracking
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Davebutterflyman
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Thanks for the update and link Jan.

To be honest, you cannot blame them one bit! Fancy arriving on these shores, after a mammoth migration, to find we are in sub-zero temperatures!
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Night Owl
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I don't blame them Jan especially if they've seen the weather forecast for over here :giggle:

Thank you for posting the updates :cool:
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Lloyd in Nigeria - 2 Apr 2013
From his position in Central Cameroon on 27 March, Lloyd continued onwards and by the late evening of 29 March he was in the Southwest region of Cameroon. Several hours later, and just minutes after the clocks ticked in to 30 March, he crossed the border and entered Nigeria. He had travelled 330km (205 miles). The next transmission was received early yesterday morning ( 1 April) and showed he had travelled a further 395km (245 miles) across Nigeria and was in the Ondo Region. The closest Cuckoo to Lloyd’s new position is BB who is 300km (180 miles) to the east.

Chris feeding up in Ghana - 28 Mar 2013
Chris has now been in the Digya National Park for 10 days preparing for his next move. Will he do this from Ghana or Ivory Coast, as last year? We do know that he didn't use the same stop-overs on his southward journey as he did the previous year so we will have to wait and see where he will attempt his crossing of the Sahara Desert from this time.

David still in Cameroon - 28 Mar 2013
David is still in the Central Region of Cameroon. He is currently 57km (35 miles) north-west of Cameroon's capital, Yaounde, the second largest city in the country with a population of approximately 2.5 million.
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Night Owl
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:thanks1: for posting the updates Jan :cool2:
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