Updates from our Cuckoos

As of 23 January, Selborne's tag transmitted from Equatorial Guinea, showing he had left Gabon and was on his way north. He had covered around 535km (325 miles). However, further signals indicate he hasn't stopped there, but instead set out across the Gulf of Guinea and continued onwards across the sea, in the direction of Nigeria. This sea crossing is quite unusual! 

161321 has travelled westwards towards the coast of Gabon and now looks to be around the area of Moukalaba-Doudou National Park, about 85km (50 miles) inland. 

161321 has been in the area near Lémanga, Gabon for over a month and we are still regularly receiving tag transmissions. 

From his last location in Nigeria 161321 has headed off in a south-easterly direction, travelling around 965km ( 600 miles) to reach Equatorial Guinea by the 5 October. He didn't spend long here though and by the 8 October he had covered a further 450km (280 miles) to a location in Gabon, near it's southern border with Congo. 

On 22 September locations received from 161321 showed that he had left Benin and was heading east across southern Nigeria. Further locations received since then show that he is currently settled in the area he arrived in on 22 September. He is in an area of wet forest north of the town of Ejiba.

I61321 has moved slightly east of his last location and is currently moving around the wooded banks of the Pendjari river.

Just before dawn on 27 August we received several locations that showed 121321 had left Burkina Faso. His stopover in Burkina Faso lasted for just over a month. He is currently in northern Benin close to the Pandjari National Park, 434km (270 miles) south and east of his Burkina Faso stopover site.

Since arriving in Burkina Faso 161321 has been fairly settled in the area to the west of Ouagadougou. His current location is on the edge of a cultivated area just north of the town of Saria. The weather is similar to that in parts of the UK at the moment, with a temperature of 28 degrees and the likelihood of thunderstorms over the next few days.

Since crossing the Sahara and arriving in Mali on 12th July, Hampshire Cuckoo 161321 has started to push east, travelling 350 miles over the past few days. He is currently in Burkina Faso 80 miles west of the capital Ouagadougou, in the Sorobouli Forest.