Updates from our Cuckoos

We haven't heard from 161319 for over a month now and fear the worse. As we have no further information we don't really know what happened to him, other than he didn't seem to make it out of the Italian Alps. The last location we have for him is in a wooded Valley just north of Finele in the Province of Bolzano.

Locations receievd from PJ on 19 September show that he is still settled in southern Niger.

It seems that Peckham had started his desert crossing on 6 September, as when we next heard from him on 9 September he was in southern Libya and about half-way across the desert. By the early hours of 11 September he had successfully crossed and was in northern Cameroon. He has sinced moved east and is currently in southern Chad.

Markoo seems settled in northwest Nigeria, at what must be his stopover site before heading east towards the Congo rainforest.

Larry is still in his southern Chad stopover site.

A good quality location received from Jack's tag during the evening of 17 September showed that he was still in northern Italy on the banks of the River Po, close to Lombriasco. How much longer it will be before he makes his move south we don't know but it would seem that he is now running a little late.

David is still settled in his stopover site in southern Chad.

Since heading back north into Mali 161324 has stayed in the river valley he found. His tag is still sending lots of information and he appears to be alive and well.

Bill has left Mali and headed east, crossing Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo and Benin. He is currently in Nigeria, having arrived here around breakfast on 13 September, and is just north of Jebba on the banks of the River Niger.