Our Cuckoos are ready to cross the Sahara!

30 Mar 2016

Our seven active satellite-tagged Cuckoos are now lined up south of the Sahara, ready for this most perilous leg of their return migration back to the UK. The remaining birds include Cuckoo veteran David, tagged in Wales in 2012. Follow our birds as they undertake this huge and hazardous journey back to their UK breeding grounds.

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Our Cuckoos are ready to cross the Sahara!

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