On the 24th June, Selborne was picked up heading south from his previous tracked location in the Basque region of Northern Spain. He is currently in a wooded valley south of Arevalo, Central Spain. This is 287km (178 miles) south west of Bilbao, and 1,528km (950 miles) south of his summer location in the New Forest, Hampshire.
Updates from our Cuckoos
Read the latest updates from our Cuckoos on their epic migration between the UK and tropical Africa, or track their movements in real-time on our Cuckoo migration map.
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Selborne moves further south
28 Jun 2017
PJ crosses the Channel
28 Jun 2017
PJ has started his migration towards Africa for the winter. He left his breeding territory in Thetford Forest on the Norfolk/Suffolk border on the 24th June stopping over in NE France. He is currently in woodland west of Lachaussee, 525km (326 miles) southeast of his summer location.
170435 continues to Italy
28 Jun 2017
By the early hours of 23 June, Cuckoo 170435's tag was sending signals from southwest Germany, roughly 20km (12 miles) south-west of the city of Mannheim, which sits on the Rhine and Neckar rivers. He was 775 km (480 miles) from his breeding grounds in Nottingham. Signals received yesterday reveal that he has continued southwards and by early evening was in Italy, north of the Venetian Lagoon and not far from the City of Venice.
170434 near Paris
27 Jun 2017
By the afternoon of the 23 June, Cuckoo 170434 had arrived at a location roughly 50km (30 miles) from the centre of Paris, having traveled around 340km (210 miles) from the New Forest.
170432 ahead of the rest
22 Jun 2017
Another of our new birds is on their journey to Africa. From Chicester Harbour, Sussex, Cuckoo 170432 had reached a location west of Poitiers, France by 17 June and a signal received on the 20 June showed that he hadn't hung around! He was just 80km (50 miles) west of the coast of Sicily! This makes him the most southerly of the Cuckoos currently. We will have to wait for further signals to see where he made land!
170433 in France
22 Jun 2017
One of our newly tagged Cuckoos is already off and on their journey south. Having received signals from the Nord-Pas-De-Calais region on 11 June, Cuckoo 170433 was 475km (just under 300 miles) further south near Limoges, in southwest-central France when signals were received on 21 June.
170433 and 170435 tagged in Sherwood
22 Jun 2017
170433 and 170435 are our two newly tagged Cuckoos from Sherwood Forest. They join Selborne, who was tagged in the New Forest area in 2016.
170429 name to be decided shortly
22 Jun 2017
This Cuckoo is being named shortly by pupils at Thetford Grammar School, who've been helping the BTO with our invertebrate research by taking part in What's Under Your Feet?, our collaborative study with EDF Energy. They invited us to their 'dig' and are kindly helping us to promote the project to other schools by allowing us to video and photograph their efforts and promote the work through social media.
170430 receives a name
22 Jun 2017
Carlton has been named by Suffolk Wildlife Trust after Carlton Marshes where he was tagged on the Norfolk/Suffolk border.
Selborne moving south
22 Jun 2017
A signal on 21 June shows Selborne heading south, out at sea just off the coast near Bordeaux. Further signals received today show that he continued onwards to the Basque Region in northern Spain. He is currently just 40km (25 miles) south-east of Bilbao.
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