Clement at mid-winter

23 Dec 2011

Clement is one of three Cuckoos on the Teke Plateau in Congo, and has been there since 23 November. The plateau is covered in grassland interspersed with humid closed-canopy forest. Climatically, it is within the humid closed-canopy tropical forest zone but the sandy soils combined with frequent fires mean this habitat restricted mostly to the river courses. This seems to provide ideal conditions for Cuckoos – the satellite photos show how Clement is using forest patches with lots of edges in the northern part of the plateau.

BirdTrack migration blog – early spring

It may still feel like winter but for some species, the increasing temperatures and lengthening days have already kick-started spring migration, with birds starting to arrive and depart across Britain and Ireland.

Article

Paper call for special HPAI issue

A special issue of the BTO journal Bird Study, bringing together research documenting the HPAI outbreak and its impacts on wild birds, will be published in late 2024.

Event

Songbird ID (3 sessions, Wednesdays 10am)

This course involves three weekly online sessions of 100 minutes, with a trainer:participant ratio of about 1:30. Participants' microphones are muted during the sessions but there is a large interactive component,...

Clement at mid-winter

Share this page

Related content

BirdTrack migration blog – early spring

Paper call for special HPAI issue

Songbird ID (3 sessions, Wednesdays 10am)