Updates from our Cuckoos

A location received from Larry on 3 November shows that he is settled close to Lake Mai, in DRC. He may well stay here for the next couple of months, only time will tell.

Even though we haven't heard from Hennah for a while now we still don't want to write him off, and hope that his tag will once again spring back into life.

We are still receiving locations for Dudley but the data shows that his temperature is fluctuating, suggesting that we have lost him and that his tag, whilst still charging, is reflecting the ups and downs in the daily temperature rather than Dudley's body temperature.

A location received from Disco Tony on 4 November placed him on the northern edge of the rainforest, in Cameroon. We would expect him to move further south into the rainforest during the next few weeks.

A location received from David during the afternoon of 27 October showed that he was still settled in the area of the rainfrest in DRC that he arrived in on 13 October.

Coo is settled in the area of the Congo rainforest in DRC that he arrived in on 13 September. We last heard from him at 19.23 on the evening of the 3rd November. It is likely that he will stay in this area for the next couple of months.

David has continued his journey south, travelling 600 miles south from his last position in the Central African Republic to the northern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In previous years he has wintered about 500 miles further south so we expect him to make another journey before reaching his final wintering areas.

Since the last update, Larry has flown almost 600 miles south from his last location in the south of Chad to the south-western corner of the Central African Republic. He is probably now in or at the edge of the Congolian lowland forests.

David has made a move south from Chad and into Central African Republic, travelling 215km (130 miles).  

Disco Tony has made an interesting and unprecedented movement over the past week, flying almost 400 miles west from Chad into Nigeria. Only Dudley is further west. We will have to wait to see how long he spends here and where he goes to next.