Roy in Austria - 16 Jul 2012

Having reached southern Germany by 10 July, Roy continued to press on and by 13 July he was in the state of Carinthia in southern Austria. By 15 July he was settled a few kms north of Millstätter See, giving a total onward movement of 245km (153 miles) SSE form his position in Germany.

Roy leaves the UK - 11 Jul 2012

Roy has travelled 1080km (that's around 670 miles) to reach Germany! His last tag transmission was on the 8 July from North York Moors National Park but by the evening of the 10 July he was close to the town of Regensburg in the south-west of Germany.  This means Wallace is the last Scottish Cuckoo to leave, and with good reason to believe Lyster has left too, he becomes the last of all our male Cuckoos to leave the UK.   

115593 named after folk hero - 09 Jul 2012

Our last Scottish Cuckoo has been given a name. 115593 will now be known as Roy after Rob Roy (Robert Roy MacGregor), Scotland's own version of Robin Hood. Rob Roy was born at Glengyle, at the head of Loch Katrine where the Cuckoos were tagged, in what is now Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park.
 

Scottish Cuckoos remain still - 09 Jul 2012
There has been no significant progress over the past week in the migrations of the Cuckoos tagged in Scotland, with the exception of Roy’s movement to the North York Moors National Park. Chance is still in Germany, BB in Italy and Mungo is in Switzerland. Wallace is the only Cuckoo still in Scotland – but only just! He made an excursion out of the country at the end of June, only to return back north - further details and discussion of this intriguing excursion are in his blog.
Roy leaves Scotland - 04 Jul 2012

Roy has left Wallace behind in Scotland, and followed the same route as Mungo before him to arrive in the North York Moors National Park.

On 1 July, Roy's satellite tag was transmitting from 10km south of Dumfries. By the evening of 3 July we received data from the North York Moors National Park – this is a movement of 180km (110 miles) in a south-easterly direction. This is the second of our Scottish Cuckoos to arrive in this area and, like Mungo before him, Roy should find plenty of large hairy caterpillars here in the rough grassland adjacent to the heather moorland. Will he continue to follow the same migratory route as Mungo, who is currently in Switzerland?

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