Larry has left France. By the afternoon of 22 June had travelled 890km (550 miles). and signals revealed that he was on the island of Punta Križa, off the coast of Croatia. This is several weeks earlier than he visited Croatia last year. In fact, at this time last year, Larry was still at his tagging site before then moving on to Hungary by 24 June and then to Croatia in July, but further south than he is currently.
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Larry in Croatia
22 Jun 2017
Larry is the third Cuckoo to leave
20 Jun 2017
Transmissions show that by the evening of the 19 June, Larry was the third of our tagged Cuckoos to have left the UK. Signals revealed he was 85km (50 miles) east of Reims, between the communes of Septsarges and Dannevouxis in the department of Meuse, France. Larry spent around six weeks in the UK before departing.
Selborne is off!
20 Jun 2017
Selborne has become our second tagged Cuckoo to leave the UK. From the New Forest he has travelled 330km (205 miles) to
La Guerche-de-Bretagne, a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany. He arrived here in northwestern France on 17 June. He spent just under two months in the UK.
Victor in Spain
20 Jun 2017
Victor has headed further south and is now in Spain. He travelled 560km (350 miles) from his last location in France and by morning on the 15 June had crossed the Pyrenees and was just north of Aragon. He then travelled a further 250km (155 miles) and by the 19 June was 50km south-east of the city of Cuenca which is set in the mountains of east-central Spain.
Victor in La Brenne Regional Nature Park
14 Jun 2017
Victor has moved a little further south and is now in the La Brenne Regional Nature Park, east of Poitiers. He stopped here in May on his way back to the UK and presumably found it a good enough spot to revisit!
Victor on his way back to Africa
05 Jun 2017
Locations received from Victor's tag during the late afternoon on 4 June showed that he had left the UK and was in central France. Last spring he left the UK around 25 June, stopping briefly in northeastern France before moving to Central France. He is currently in an area of forest just south of Orleans and around 100km (65 miles) north of the area close to Chateauroux where he spent 10 days last spring.
Peckham in the Yorkshire Dales
05 Jun 2017
Peckham is back in the Yorkshire Dales just to the west of Sedburgh, in the area that he was tagged in May 2015. He is currently spending most of his time close to Lily Mere.
No sign of David
05 Jun 2017
BTO staff have searched the area around Tregaron that David has frequented in previous summers to no avail. Plenty of Cuckoos were seen but non with the tell-tale antenna of a satellite tag that would prove without doubt that the Cuckoo was David. David had been wearing his tag for over five years and the information received suggested that it was beginning to fail. We will never know for sure whether David is alive or not, but we live in hope.
Victor still on the Norfolk/Suffolk border
23 May 2017
Victor is still ranging quite widely around King's Forest in Suffolk but also occasionally visiting Thetford Forest over the border in Norfolk. Like PJ he has also been in the vicinity of the BTO's Nunnery Lakes. The most recent locations received around lunch on 23 May showed that he was to the east of Thetford on the edge of heathland close to Roudham.
Selborne still in the New Forest
23 May 2017
Since arriving back in the New Forest Selborne has explored it pretty thoroughly. The most recent locations recieved from his tag show that he is now spending most of his time in an area northeast of Brockenhurst and to the northwest of Furzey Lodge. He has also visited heath to the southwest of Beaulieu Road Station.
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