Dart in Mallorca

24 Jul 2013

Dart has flown south for a summer holiday to Mallorca, adding a new island to those visited by our tagged Cuckoos. He has travelled 500km (310 miles) from Italy to the south coast of Mallorca and is currently north of Cala Figuera. Two of the other Devon Cuckoos have travelled to Spain, while poor quality transmissions from Tor on 23 July show that he is on Corsica, along with Sussex the Cuckoo. It looks like Dart and Tor could cross from these islands to Africa but we will have to wait and see what they do next.

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