Roy has travelled 1080km (that's around 670 miles) to reach Germany! His last tag transmission was on the 8 July from North York Moors National Park but by the evening of the 10 July he was close to the town of Regensburg in the south-west of Germany.  This means Wallace is the last Scottish Cuckoo to leave, and with good reason to believe Lyster has left too, he becomes the last of all our male Cuckoos to leave the UK.   

On the afternoon of the 7 July we received a transmission from England. Then early yesterday morning (10 July) we received a series of locations with uncertain accuracy all placing him in the Champagne-Ardenne region 25km (15 miles) north of Troyes.

These new points won't show on the map yet, but should update over the next few days as we receive further transmissions to verify the uncertain locations from this morning. The distance between his last location in England and this new location was 490km (303 miles). This means that all our English Cuckoos are now on their way south!

Our last remaining un-named Cuckoo has finally received a name. 115597 will now be known as Lloyd. He has been named after John Lloyd, a long-standing BTO Regional Representative and our Honorary Wales Officer. In Welsh Lloyd becomes Llwyd and means 'grey', the colour of male Cuckoos

Our last Scottish Cuckoo has been given a name. 115593 will now be known as Roy after Rob Roy (Robert Roy MacGregor), Scotland's own version of Robin Hood. Rob Roy was born at Glengyle, at the head of Loch Katrine where the Cuckoos were tagged, in what is now Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park.
 

Signals received on 4 July showed that Wallace had skipped over the border into England. He moved 62km (39 miles) ENE transmitting from the area surrounding Harwood Forest in Northumberland.

Having moved to dead on the border between England and Scotland 14km (9 miles) NE of Gretna on 30 June, Wallace had hopped across it by 3 July. By 4 July he had moved 62km (39 miles) ESE and appeared to be moving around the area surrounding Harwood Forest in Northumberland. He didn’t stay there long though and by 6 July he had moved 172km (107 miles) WNW back to the location that he had occupied during the second half of June! This is the second time Wallace has moved south only to retrace his steps back north – we can only assume that the new locations he has visited have not been suitable and he has decided to cut his losses and return to the presumably superior feeding grounds here.

In common with the Cuckoos tagged in Scotland and England, over the past week there has been little movement form those tagged in Wales. The exception was Indy who, as reported in his blog last week, moved from France into Italy, joining Iolo and becoming the second Cuckoo to be staging in the Po watershed (Reacher passed though the region very briefly but is now staging close to the border between France and Spain). 115597 is still close to Marseille in France.

In recent days there has been little movement from the Cuckoos tagged in England. Reacher remains near Perpignan and looks poised to take the westerly route into Africa through Iberia that Clement and Lyster used last year. Chris remains close to Antwerp and is now 24km (15 miles) NE of the city. 115589 is still about 110km (968 miles) east of Reims in northern France, whilst Lyster has repeated the pattern from last year and is the last of the Cuckoos tagged in England still in the country.

BB has followed Indy and Iolo and arrived in northern Italy. Data received from his tag on the morning of 5 July show his location as north east Italy, in the Pordenone region. That's a total distance from his last confirmed data transmission on 30 June, from the Czech Republic, of approximately 500km (300 miles). Unresolved data received on 2 July suggests that he may have stopped in Austria on his way south. Despite taking a much more easterly route than Mungo and Iolo, BB's migration route has converged to join them in northern Italy.