115586 has been named Derek by Kate Bradbury, author and freelance wildlife gardening writer for the Guardian, who is supporting the Cuckoo Project.
Tracking Cuckoos to Africa... and back again
The 'Red Listed' Cuckoo is one of the UK's fastest declining migrants and, until recently, was one of which we knew least about once it left the UK.
In 2011 we attached satellite-tracking devices to Cuckoos from Norfolk to find out more about their important stop-over sites and wintering destinations on the way to and from Africa. Since then we have been able to expand the project thanks to support from funders and sponsors. Read more about the project and find out what we have learnt so far.
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Cuckoo movements from 09 May 2013 to 18 June 2013
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Latest News
115586 is named Derek
- 19 Jun 2013
Will Chris be the next to leave?
- 18 Jun 2013
Chris is currently south-east of Cavenham Pits, where he has been most of this summer. He is the only bird for which we have two years of data so it gives us a great opportunity to look at how similar or different his movements are from one year to the next - we know he left on his autumn migration relatively early compared to the other tagged cuckoos in previous years:
In 2011, he left Norfolk between the 3 - 5 June and travelled to Sussex for a few days, before moving to the Netherlands by 17 June 2011. In 2012, Chris was the first of all the tagged birds to leave, reaching Belgium by 12 June. In fact, Chris has been the first bird to move from his summer location in each of the last two years of the project. The fact it hasn't happened this year could be related to him settling in northern France this spring, before returning to the Brecks, meaning he arrived here late. Is he getting ready to move or will he hang around in the UK even longer in to the month of June?
Sussex is the first to leave the UK!
- 18 Jun 2013
Sussex was still in Ashdown Forest on the evening of the 15 June but by 18 June he had hopped 167km (104 miles) across the English Channel and was in the Upper Normandy region of France. He is roughly 28km (18 miles) inland of the coast in a wooded area north-east of Saint-Saëns. After Karma became the first of our cuckoos to begin his migration late last week, Sussex has become the first to leave the country this autumn!
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