Updates from our Cuckoos

A location received in the early evening of 17 December showed that Stanley had undertaken a short 42km (26 miles) flight south west. He is still on the southern edge of the Congo rainforest.

A location received from Larry on the 16 December showed that he was still settled in Angola.

In the last few days of November Disco Tony headed south into Congo, he is currently 237km (148 miles) south west of his previous position in Gabon. Might this be his final mid-winter location or will he move again? Only time will tell.

Although we are still receiving locations from Charlies tag, the latest was received at 07.45 on 18 December, he hasn't moved from the Sahara desert in central Chad since mid-September. We have to assume that he failed to successfully cross the desert and that his tag is still able to take a charge and keep on working.

Coo was on the move again over the weekend, and by Sunday evening was 120km south west of his location on Friday evening. He is now much closer to the southern edge of the rainforest and only Larry (in Angola) is further south. It will be interesting to see if he heads any further south during the next week or so.

As predicted, Disco Tony has continued his journey south. On the 11 November we recieved a series of confusing locations for him, some good, some poor. When all this information had been analysed he was put firmly in Gabon, 840km (520 miles) south east of his last location in Cameroon.

Having reported on 5 November that Larry was settled in DRC he promptly moved overnight. During the early hours of 6 November we received several locations from him that showed he had moved 682km (424 miles) south west into Angola. He didn't stay here very long, and by 11 November had moved another 308km (191 miles) west. He is currently in northern Angola, 46km (29 miles) from the South Atlantic coast.

Vigilamus is still in the area of swamp forest that he arrived in during early October. Locations receved from him on 4 November show him to be alive and well.

A location received from Stanley on 4 November showed him settled close to the Tumba Lediima Natural Reserve, DRC, and close to the area he arrived in at the end of September.

A location received on 26 October showed that Peckham was still in Gabon and in the area he first arrived in on 3 October. It will be interesting to see where he goes from here as non of our tagged Cuckoos have spent the winter in Gabon before.