An update received from Raymond's tag at 02:55 yesterday morning suggests that he has departed Cameroon and has flown 515 Km (320 miles) west and crossed the border into Nigeria. We will have to await another update to learn whether Raymond has stayed in Nigeria or was en-route to another destination further west.
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Raymond moving west?
29 Mar 2019
Bowie returns to Ghana
29 Mar 2019
Since our last update Bowie has backtracked East, flying 411 Km (255 miles) from Ivory Coast over the border into Ghana. He is now 122 Km (75 miles) west of the city of Kumasi in south west Ghana.
Thomas heads West
29 Mar 2019
A data transmission from Thomas' tag on Wednesday morning showed that he has flown 530 miles (852 Km) West from his last location in south west Nigeria to his new location in Ivory Coast. He is now in the east of Ivory Coast, 110 miles (177 Km) north east of the capital Yamoussoukro. He is just 5 miles (8 Km) east of Sherwood Cuckoo Robinson and 30 miles (48 Km) north west of Sussex Cuckoo Knepp.
PJ moves back west
20 Mar 2019
During the last few days PJ and headed back west. He has flown over 100km (65 miles) and is on the banks of the Nzi River to the south of Kassikankro. Presumably these movements are in search of better feeding conditions.
Victor in Ivory Coast
18 Mar 2019
Victor has crossed the border into Ivory Coast. He is now one of five satellite tagged Cuckoos in Ivory Coast. He is currently just to the east of the town of Diambarakrou and 179km (111 miles) south and west of his stopover in Ghana.
Thomas has moved west
18 Mar 2019
Thomas is still in Nigeria but has moved 373km (231 miles) to the west. He is in an area of forest to the south of the town of Osu.
Sherwood has moved into Gabon
18 Mar 2019
Sherwood has begun his journey west. During the last week he crossed the border into Gabon and is currently 120 km (75 miles) west of his last location in Congo. He is still in dense rainforest and in the Minkebe National Park.
Robinson has moved south
18 Mar 2019
After arriving in Ivory Coast, Robinson didn't hang around, he almost immediately moved 138km (85 miles) south and west. He is now in forest to the south of the town of Konanlekro in fairly open forest.
Raymond is in Cameroon
18 Mar 2019
Over the weekend, Raymond moved west, crossing the border into Cameroon. He is currently in gallery forest to the west of the Lom River and the town of Maraba, and 382km (237 miles) from his stopover site in CAR.
Where's Lambert?
18 Mar 2019
We haven't heard from Lambert since 7 March but at the time the information from his tag shows he was alive. However, the battery charge was quite low. At the time he was still in southern Congo but it will be interesting to see if he pops up further north and west, hopefully once his tag recieves more charge.
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