Updates from our Cuckoos

Signals received on August 24 and 26 show that BB remains in the same area within Chad, close to the border with Sudan. 

Wallace has flown 55km (35 miles) southwest within Germany and is now close to the village of Lauterbach in the Black Forest near Schramberg.  Mungo’s last transmission on 29 July locates him near Lake Chad but we haven’t received any further signals from him. BB is also in Chad and we last heard from him on 13 August.  

BB continued his movement south from Egypt and successfully completed his desert crossing during the early hours of Saturday 28 July, reaching south-western Sudan by the time his tag stopped transmitting, becoming the first of our tracked Cuckoos recorded in that country. By the morning of Monday 30 July he had moved 193km (120 miles) due W to a location just over the border in Chad. He is now at a very similar latitude to Chris and Mungo, who have remained just north of lake Chad, but he 764km (475 miles) to their east.

BB crossed the Mediterranean Sea and, by early yesterday evening, had made it to Egypt! His tag transmission showed him close to the border with Libya and it looks like he was continuing southwards when the transmissions ended. BB's movement into Egypt makes him our easternmost Cuckoo yet and the first to transmit from over Egypt. 

 Having arrived in northern Italy on 5 July, BB has been settled there ever since. However, a poor location from his tag indicates that he too may have made a bid for Africa. Watch this space!

With the exception of Roy, there has been little recent movement by the Cuckoos tagged in Scotland - Wallace remains in Ayrshire; BB remains in north-eastern Italy; Mungo remains in Switzerland close to Mont Blanc; Chance remains just south of Berlin.

BB has followed Indy and Iolo and arrived in northern Italy. Data received from his tag on the morning of 5 July show his location as north east Italy, in the Pordenone region. That's a total distance from his last confirmed data transmission on 30 June, from the Czech Republic, of approximately 500km (300 miles). Unresolved data received on 2 July suggests that he may have stopped in Austria on his way south. Despite taking a much more easterly route than Mungo and Iolo, BB's migration route has converged to join them in northern Italy.

The last transmission we received from BB's tag on the 30 June shows that he has moved around 85km (52 miles) in a south-easterly direction from his position in Germany. He is now close to the border between Germany and the Czech Republic and currently appears to be just inside the Czech border near Hranicná.

By lunchtime on the 20 June, BB was transmitting from Germany, having travelled 410 km (253 miles) from Friesland. He appears to have travelled 110 km (70 miles) east within Germany and, as of yesterday morning, was in the Sachsen-Anhelt region.