Selborne has been at his stopover site in Burkina Faso for a month now. In 2016 he moved east from here on 26 August and on 20 August in 2017. so, we expect him to move east any day now.
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Selborne still in Burkina Faso
23 Aug 2018
Robinson moves further west
23 Aug 2018
During the last few days Robinson has moved further west and is now in the Lame Burra Game Reserve in central northern Nigeria. This westerly movement may well be the first in preparation for his move south into the Congo Basin, and one that will give him better feeding opportunities. He is currently on the northern edge of a band of fairly heavy rain.
Raymond heads east
23 Aug 2018
Since crossing the desert, Raymond has headed east through Mali and into Burkina Faso. He is one of five of our satellite tagged Cuckoos that are currently in Burkina Faso. He arrived in Burkina Faso on 21 August and is now just to the south of a town called Boudiedara.
PJ has moved.
23 Aug 2018
Since crossing the desert, PJ has gone on a bit of a fly-around. He first moved south into Burkina Faso, then moved back north towards the border with Mali before turning east towards Niger and then south along the border with Niger and Burkina Faso. He is currently in eastermost Niger.
Larry still in Chad
23 Aug 2018
Larry is currently the most easterly of our tagged Cuckoos. Since crossing the desert at the end of July he has been settled in an area of forest in southern Chad.
Lambert heads east
23 Aug 2018
A single location received from Lambert's tag during the evening of 21 August shows that he has moved out of Senegal and headed east into Guinea, moving through Guinea-Bissau on the way. There is now only one tagged Cuckoo further west than Lambert, and this is Sherwood. We expect both of them to move east during the next couple of weeks.
Knepp still in Burkina Faso
23 Aug 2018
Along with all of our other satellite tagged Cuckoos, Knepp is resting and refuelling after his desert crossing. He has been settled in Burkina Faso for the last twenty days. At some stage soon we expect him to begin heading further east towards the Congo Basin.
Carlton II has moved east
23 Aug 2018
Between 10 and 16 August, Carlton II spent most of the time heading east, through Senegal, Mali, Guinea and Ivory Coast. He is currently in southern Burkina Faso, very close the the border with Ivory Coast. During this period he moved just under 1,000km (600 miles).
Cameron settled in Nigeria
23 Aug 2018
Cameron's tag is giving us lots of data that shows he is still settled to the north of the Lame Burra Game Reserve in northern central Nigeria. He has been here for just over twenty days, resting and refuelling after his desert crossing. He is currently 4,566km (2,837 miles) from his New Forest breeding territory, as the crow flies. He has at least another 1,600km (1,000 miles) to go before reaching the Congo basin, the area in which all of our tagged Cuckoos since the start of the project have spent the mid-winter months.
Bowie still settled in Chad
23 Aug 2018
We are still receiving lots of information from Bowie's tag that shows he is still settled in an area of forest to the northwest of Manda National Park in southern Chad. In the next couple of weeks we could well see him move south into the Congo basin and closer to his winter location. At this stage we don't know where this will be as this is the first year that we have followed Bowie.
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