Kidman has been named by BBC Wildlife in honour of Rosamund Kidman Cox, the first and most long-standing Editor of the magazine.
Updates from our Cuckoos
Read the latest updates from our Cuckoos on their epic migration between the UK and tropical Africa, or track their movements in real-time on our Cuckoo migration map.
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170434 is named Kidman
13 Jul 2017
Boris moves south to Spain
13 Jul 2017
Boris had left the wooded area in southwest France by the 10 July and headed further south to a location in central Spain, north of Cuenca.
170433 receives a name
12 Jul 2017
Cuckoo 170433 has been named by Yolobirder and followers on Twitter after a poll of 4 choices. Mr Conkers won with 34% beating second place Frazzles at 27%.
Larry still in Croatia
07 Jul 2017
Larry is still settled in the south of the island of Cres, close to the village of Punta Kriza. We don't expect him to use this area as his stopover site, his usual site is 140km (87 miles) further south, just to the south of Lake Vrana.
170429 has a name
07 Jul 2017
It seems that giving 170429 a name prompted a reaction as during the morning of 6 July, Boris, as he is now known, transmitted for the first time outside of the UK. Boris is currently in southwest France, in an area of woodland just south of Bordeaux. Go Boris.
170435 settled close to Venice
07 Jul 2017
Locations received from 170435's tag show that he is settled close to the Piave River between Fossalta di Piave and San Dona di Piave. Looking on Google Earth the banks of the river have small areas of riverine woodland. This could prove to be 170435's staging area in preparation for his desert crossing.
170434 heads further south
07 Jul 2017
After spending a few days close to Paris, Cuckoo 170434 headed south, arriving in southeast France on 26 June and stopping for four days close to Lyon before heading east into Italy. He is currently in an area of woodland just north of Malpensa airport on the northern edge of the Po valley.
170433 in Spain
07 Jul 2017
Since we last heard from Cuckoo 170433 he has continued his journey south and has crossed the Pyrenees into Spain. He is currently in wooded habitat on the banks fo the river Salazar and close to the town of Rocaforte, 39km (24 miles) southeast of Pamplona.
Peckham getting ready to leave?
30 Jun 2017
Peckham has left his breeding grounds and as of the evening of 28 June was just south of Nottingham. Might he be the next to leave?
Selborne moves further south
28 Jun 2017
On the 24th June, Selborne was picked up heading south from his previous tracked location in the Basque region of Northern Spain. He is currently in a wooded valley south of Arevalo, Central Spain. This is 287km (178 miles) south west of Bilbao, and 1,528km (950 miles) south of his summer location in the New Forest, Hampshire.
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