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.
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Lyster heading back north!
Lyster following in Clement’s footsteps
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.
Lyster lies low
Chris in no hurry to move
Clement content for now
Kasper wintering in Nigeria?
Martin still in CAR
Lyster moves northwards
After successfully crossing the desert and appearing in Senegal on the 24th, we again picked up Lyster in the same location on the 27th but at c. 9pm on the evening of the 29th, he transmitted at a location just to the north. Over the course of that evening and into the morning of the 30th, he had moved northwards over the great Senegal river plain and by 3am was in what looks like a temporary watercourse some 75km away in Mauritania. Quite why he moved northwards, we don’t know but maybe he is looking for better foraging conditions.
Martin in Central African Republic
Continuing his move south-eastwards, Martin did not hang around the location he had reached on the 25th. We next picked him up in the Central African Republic on the 27th August after having travelled another 250km. He has apparently homed in on another river system (if you zoom into the map you can see the dark line of trees surrounding the watercourse.
Clement still on eastward course
Clement is continuing on his flight eastwards. It looks as though he left his last position near Kaduna on the evening of 28th August and headed eastwards for another 275km just to the NW of the Yankari Game Reserve. He is again in an area of farmland with scattered bushes. Interestingly his flight has taken him within 60km of the A P Leventis Ornithological Institute based in Jos.
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