Updates from our Cuckoos

Despite setting off along a westerly route through Spain, Severn has now changed course!

Since our last update just a few days ago, when he was in the Castilla–La Mancha region, he has headed eastwards and then up along the Spanish coast towards France, passing Marseille and Monaco and entering northern Italy! He is now just west of Parma, in the Piacenza region.

In just five days he has covered more than 1,100 km (683 miles).

Wilfrid has made good progress over the last few days, taking a 280 km (173 miles) route into Spain that bypassed a mountain crossing over the Pyrenees by cutting across open water from the coast of south-west France, to Bilbao.

From here he carried on a further 290 km (180 miles) and is currently in an area around the town of Tordesillas by the Douro River, in the province of Valladolid, Castile and León.  

George II has forged his way southward, and since leaving the Caen area a couple of days ago he has covered around 620 km (385 miles).

He is now in a lush agricultural area in the region of Occitanie, to the north of the Pyrenees.

Cuach Torc set off from the area around The Kunë-Vain-Talë Reserve on Friday night and continued south through Albania, and into Western Greece.

He is now in a wooded valley in a mountainous region approximately 25 km (15 miles) south of the city of Patras, on the Peloponnese peninsula.

Cuthbert has finally set off on his epic migration south!

Updates received from his tag this morning show that he has flown 334 km (208 miles) south-west. This journey has taken him from his breeding grounds in the Norfolk Broads, across the English Channel to France. He is now close to the town of Etretat in Normandy, famous for its amazing cliffs and rock formations.

Having left Dubrovnik, Torc made his way along the coast of Montenegro, and has now pitched down in north-east Albania.

He is currently on the fringes of the The Kunë-Vain-Talë-Patok-Fushëkuqe-Ishëm Nature Reserve. Formerly a hunting reserve, this protected area was designated as a nature reserve in 2010 and is recognised as an Important Bird Area by BirdLife International.

Severn has continued to make his way down through Spain.

Since our last update, he headed west to Sepúlveda, in the Castile and León region, before switching south-east, bypassing Madrid and stopping in the arid plains near the city of Albacete, Castilla–La Mancha.

As he nears the coast, which route will he take from here?  

After a couple of days around the Troyes area, Wilfrid flew approximately 500 km (310 miles) south toward Bordeaux, where he is currently in an area of mixed woodland and farmland just south of the Dordogne River.

When we last checked in with George II four days ago, he was on the Essex coast.

Since then, he crossed the Thames estuary into Kent and continued south into East Sussex, from where he flew out across the Channel from Hastings. Taking a rather lengthy route of around 180 km (112 miles) over open water, he has now arrived in Normandy, just south of Caen.

Since leaving north-west Scotland a week ago, George II has taken a rather leisurely route down to the Essex coast, where he is currently feeding up before (hopefully) making his Channel crossing.

His 880 km (550 miles) north-to-south journey has taken him from Dundonell, down to Stirling, through the Lake District, skirted Leeds, through the East Midlands and down past Ipswich, before coming to a stop near Southend-On-Sea.