Lyster has moved further south. He arrived in Congo on 29th October, however, a transmission from him in the early hours of this morning shows that he has moved further into Congo and is now 70km (42miles) further south-east than he was on the 29th. He is just north of Okoyo near to a tributary of the Congo river and is the second Cuckoo to cross the equator.
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Lyster is second to cross the equator
03 Nov 2011
Lyster is our third Cuckoo in Congo
31 Oct 2011
Having stayed in Gabon for around 3 days, Lyster has moved again. At 4.13am on the 29th October he transmitted from Congo, 12km north-west of Ewo and 300km north-west of Kasper who is also in Congo, along with Chris. He certainly is making up for lost time!
Lyster in Gabon
27 Oct 2011
By the 26 October Lyster had left Nigeria and had travelled along the western edge of Cameroon, before heading in to Gabon. He is now in the massive area that is the Congo rainforest. Kasper also stopped in Gabon for four days before moving in to Congo.
Lyster leap frogs Clement
25 Oct 2011
After two weeks in the south-east corner of Burkina Faso, Lyster has made a break to the south-east. On the morning of 24 October, we received a number of locations that placed him in southern Nigeria, about 170km SE of Benin City. He was about 25km E of the River Niger, about 200km N of the Niger Delta.
Lyster has leap-frogged Clement and appears to be heading towards the three Cuckoos that are in the Congo basin – perhaps Clement will follow him soon?
Lyster remains in Burkina Faso
21 Oct 2011
Lyster remains in the south-eastern corner of Burkina Faso, very close to the borders with Togo and Benin. He has been at this location since 9 October.
Lyster heading east
11 Oct 2011
Lyster is currently in the south-eastern corner of Burkina Faso. He is now only 800km to the west of Kasper and is heading his way. The landscape he is in is one of open woodland. Given the recent rainfall in the area, he should be finding plenty of food. The temperature today is a warm 30°C with sunshine and cloud, with the possibility of thunderstorms in the evening.
Lyster moves eastwards
06 Oct 2011
By the early hours of yesterday morning Lyster had moved just over 900km ESE from his previous location in Mali and is now in Burkina Faso. He is now about 30km NNW of the town of Leo in southern Burkina, not far from the border with Ghana.
This places him 80km west of the Nazinga Game Reserve, which is one of the sites we have surveyed in our ‘Migrants in Africa’ project (some of which has been funded by the Out of Africa Appeal) carried out in collaboration with the RSPB, Ghana Wildlife Society and Naturama. To find out more about the work we have undertaken here, take a look at fieldwork project blog.
The new field season for this winter is just about to start so check back in a couple of weeks to find out how the team is getting on. We won’t be working in Burkina Faso this winter but will be carrying out detailed studies at two sites in Ghana concentrating on Nightingales and Wood Warblers so there should be plenty of interest to read about.
Lyster still in Mali
27 Sep 2011
Messages received on Monday put Lyster still in Mali. He has now been in this area for fifteen days.
Lyster heading back north!
16 Sep 2011
A message received from Lyster at 06.01 on 13 September, showed he had moved 40km north-east from his previous position, towards the border with Mauritania. However, we received a message from him at 20.53 on 15 September which showed he had re-traced his steps back to the south-west and is now 25km from where he was on the 13th. Maybe on his way north he passed through an area that was more suitable than the one he arrived in and decided to head back there.
His local weather today is sunny and dry with a light south-westerly wind and a temperature of 25°C.
Lyster following in Clement’s footsteps
12 Sep 2011
We received a transmission from Lyster at 05.00 yesterday morning. He is now 2km south-east of Sirakoro in Mali, 470km from his last position in Senegal. He appears to be following in Clement’s footsteps, heading east towards the other four cuckoos. The landscape around Sirakoro is mostly a mosaic of cropland, forest and sub-tropical steppe.
The weather today is dry and sunny with a chance of thunderstorms later, and a hot 30°C. The next few days will be cloudy with some heavy thunderstorms.
Clement moved east fairly quickly to join the other cuckoos, it will be interesting to see if Lyster does the same.
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