170435 continues to Italy

28 Jun 2017 By the early hours of 23 June, Cuckoo 170435's tag was sending signals from southwest Germany, roughly 20km (12 miles) south-west of the city of Mannheim, which sits on the Rhine and Neckar rivers. He was 775 km (480 miles) from his breeding grounds in Nottingham. Signals received yesterday reveal that he has continued southwards and by early evening was in Italy, north of the Venetian Lagoon and not far from the City of Venice.

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