Updates from our Cuckoos

Since we last heard from Stanley he has moved north into the middle of the rainforest. He is still in DRC but is now close to the Bolomba River, 34km (21 miles) west of the town of Bolomba. 

A location received in the early evening of 17 December showed that Stanley had undertaken a short 42km (26 miles) flight south west. He is still on the southern edge of the Congo rainforest.

A location received from Stanley on 4 November showed him settled close to the Tumba Lediima Natural Reserve, DRC, and close to the area he arrived in at the end of September.

Since the last update, Stanley has travelled 700 miles to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Stanley is now in the same area that he spent the winter of 2014/15 in, next to the River Congo.

Stanley has moved 370km (230 miles) southeast and has left Nigeria. He is now in northern Cameroon.

Stanley has journeyed on from his last location in Algeria to become the current most southerly tagged Cuckoos, having reached the border between Niger and Nigeria.  He is now further south than Hennah or Dudley, having covered 2160km (1340 miles) since his previous transmission. 

Stanley is the third of our tagged Cuckoos to arrive in Africa. Sometime after the morning of the 14 July, when we last received transmissions from Sardinia, he crossed the sea and travelled 745km (460 miles) to a location within northern Algeria.  

Stanley has left France and journeyed to the island of Sardinia, 560km (370 miles) to the south-east.  Previously only Sussex has ventured here on his way south.

Stanley is stll in the area of southern France that he arrived in just over a week ago. He is currently on the northeast edge of the Camargue.

On the 18 June Stanley had left his breeding grounds and headed south to Rayleigh in Essex. Just 2 days later he had crossed the Channel and was 775km (480 miles) further south in southern France.