Since arriving in Burkina Faso 161324 has been settled in the area northeast of Ouagadougou. He appears to be using an area of cultivation around a number of small settlements.The nearest town is Kyentenga, 3.8km (2.3 miles) to the southwest.
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161324 still in Burkina Faso
24 Aug 2016
Bill has crossed the desert
24 Aug 2016
On 4 August 161323 completed his desert crossing, arriving on the banks of the Senegal River on the border with Mauritania. He has since headed south and east into Mali and is currently close to the small town of Kinyema in fairly open forest.
161322 lost
24 Aug 2016
We haven't heard from 161322 since the 6 August when he was in the middle of his desert crossing. The last locations received showed him in southern Western Sahara, 24km (15 miles) northwest of the desert town of Aousserd and we have to assume that he has perished.
161321 still in Burkina Faso
24 Aug 2016
Since arriving in Burkina Faso 161321 has been fairly settled in the area to the west of Ouagadougou. His current location is on the edge of a cultivated area just north of the town of Saria. The weather is similar to that in parts of the UK at the moment, with a temperature of 28 degrees and the likelihood of thunderstorms over the next few days.
161319 still in the Italian Alps
24 Aug 2016
We haven't heard from 161319 since 15 August and are slightly concerned about him. However, it is too early to reach any conclusions and he may still pop-up further south. The last locations received from his tag showed that he was in the mountains just north of Capanne di Fuori.
Larry has crossed the desert
11 Aug 2016
Larry has successfully crossed the Sahara and is currently in southern Chad, close to the Manda National Park.
161324 moves on
11 Aug 2016
Since successfully crossing the Sahara and arriving safely in Mali, 161324 has moved south and east into Burkina Faso and is currently 82km (51 miles) north and east of the capital Ouagadougou.
Cuckoo 161322 not hanging around
11 Aug 2016
After spending two days on the edge of the Sierra Nevada mountains, 161322 headed south across the Alboran Sea and into Morocco. After a brief stop in the High Atlas he continued south and west and is currently in Western Sahara, following in the footsteps of Cuckoo 161323 who successfully crossed the desert via this route a week ago.
Cuckoo 161319's 1,240km round trip
11 Aug 2016
Cuckoo 161319 has spent five weeks at his chosen stopover site in the Italian Alps but during the evening of 2 August we received a series of signals that showed he had upped sticks and headed south; he was 608km (378 miles) further south in the Lazio region south of Rome, close to the west coast. On the 4 August he begun heading east, and by the early hours of 5 August he had crossed to the east coast. Two days later he crossed the Adriatic heading back north and stopped in Bosnia Herzegovina, only to move north again two days later into Croatia. A series of low quality signals received on 11 August suggest that he didn't stop in Croatia and is actually back in the Italian Alps, around 79km (49 miles) from where he set off a week or so earlier. It would seem that he hadn't sufficient resources to head south and cross the desert, and, after searching around for food has headed back to an area he knows well and where the feeding was good.
David stays in Montenegro
02 Aug 2016
Welsh Cuckoo David has now been in Montenegro for almost a month. This is David's fifth tracked migration south and so we know that it's not unusual for him to spend a good chunk of time here. In previous years he stayed in Montenegro until 15th August (2012), 22nd August (2013), 8th August (2014) and 28th August (2015), so he may stay for a few more weeks yet.
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