Cuach Cores

Cuach Cores's movements

06 Aug 2024 - Sudden surge for Cuach Cores

Cuach Cores spent July in Italy, preparing for the next leg of his journey.

Less than a week ago, he suddenly headed south, and crossed the Mediterranean before setting off across the Sahara, pressing on through Libya and into Chad. Our latest signal shows that he is now in the Sahel region, close to the city of Abéché, Chad’s fourth largest city.

Interestingly, Cores remained in Europe well into October last year, and took a very different route to Africa via Spain!

01 Jul 2024 - Cores goes with the Po flow

Cuach Cores appears to have reoriented slightly from his last location in south-eastern France, and has now headed up to an area just north of the Italian city of Turin.

He has been following the River Po, Italy’s longest river; if he continues on this route it will take him eastwards, toward the Adriatic.

24 Jun 2024 - Cuach Cores heads for the coast

After spending several days around Châteaubriant, Cuach Cores finally got going again, and made a remarkable journey of around 823 km (511 miles) over the weekend.

Along the way, he spent a little time in the same area as Sayaan, near Dijon, before he moved determinedly south-east, past Grenoble and into the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region. He is just 113 km (70 miles) from the Mediterranean coast, from where he should cross into North Africa to begin the next leg of his journey.

13 Jun 2024 - Cores heads into France

Since leaving Ireland and arriving in north-west France a week ago, Cuach Cores has been taking it relatively easy, moving slowly south-eastwards into the Loire-Atlantique region.

Currently just north of the medieval town of Châteaubriant, he will likely head towards Italy and head down to Africa via an eastern route.

06 Jun 2024 - Last in, first out...

Cuach Cores was the last of our tagged Cuckoos to arrive back in the breeding grounds, and he is also the first to start heading back to Africa!

After spending just 28 days in Ireland, he took off south overnight and made landfall on the Brittany coast this morning (6 June) after a flight of 539km (335 miles).

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