Roy

Roy has been named after Rob Roy, who was born at Loch Katrine, where the Cuckoos were tagged, in what is now the Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park.

Status:: Inactive
Tagged:: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 - 01:00
Tagging Location:: Glen Gyle, Loch Katrine, Stirling, Scotland
Sex:: Male
Age when found:: Adult
Satellite Tag No.:: 115593
Wing Length (mm):: 220

Roy's journey from 16 May 2012 to 04 October 2012

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Roy's movements

12 Dec 2012 - Roy's tag may have failed

Roy we still hope is alive but, given that it has been so long since the tag had sufficient charge to transmit, we suspect it will have degraded so that it might not be able to turn on, even if subjected to enough sunlight at some point in the future. His last location is much further north than the other four Cuckoos current positions. We would expect that he would also move south and given that the tag hasn't transmitted recently, we may assume that we are down to tracking just five Cuckoos.

23 Nov 2012 - Scottish Cuckoos sitting pretty

BB’s tag transmitted this morning and shows that he is still in Chad. If you zoom in to his position on the map you can see he has not moved from his position on 18 September. He is 174 km (108 miles) northwest of Sarh, the third largest city in Chad and the capital of Moyen-Chari region.

We received signals from Chance’s tag yesterday and he remains in Gabon, although he is about 32km (20 miles) SW of his position on 12 November. Roy has still not reappeared, with the last date we received any information from his tag being the 4 October. We had hoped that we may have received some news by now.

01 Nov 2012 - Concern for Roy's tag

Roy’s tag has not transmitted since the beginning of October. From the temperature and charge data, there doesn’t seem to be any specific cause for concern but his tag had failed to transmit for three duty cycles before the last messages were received so there may be a problem with it.

16 Oct 2012 - Update on Scottish Cuckoos

BB’s tag transmitted locations over the weekend showing that he remained in Chad. Meanwhile, we have not received any further transmissions from Roy's tag since the 6 October. Whilst we had no cause for concern for Wallace when his tag last transmitted on the 14 September, the longer the silence continues, the more we wonder why.

28 Sep 2012 - Roy not far behind Chris

Sometime between 20 and 22 September, Roy moved 94km (59 miles) ESE, thereby crossing the Oubangui River and moving from CAR into the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). He has moved from a savannah landscape with gallery forest to a landscape dominated by forest but still with plenty of open patches and edges – based on what we saw last winter, this looks like very nice habitat for a Cuckoo.

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