David settled in Chad - 06 Sep 2016
Since arriving in southern Chad David has made some small adjustments, presumably seaching for a location with a good supply of food. In 2015 he left this area and headed south on 9 October.
Go David! - 25 Aug 2016

The last few days have been a tense time for us here at the BTO. David has been attempting his desert crossing and for a while it looked like he might be in trouble. He left Montenegro during the evening of 17 August and we heard nothing more from his tag until a poor quality signal on 22 August put him in the Sudan desert, 700km (400 miles) short of a successful crossing, but around mid-afternoon on 24 August a series of good quality signals showed that he has successfully crossed the desert.

In doing so, David has become our most successful tagged Cuckoo. If he makes it back to his wintering location in the Congo rainforest, he will have completed four and-a-half migrations to and from Africa. We all have our fingers crossed that he makes it.

David stays in Montenegro - 02 Aug 2016
Welsh Cuckoo David has now been in Montenegro for almost a month. This is David's fifth tracked migration south and so we know that it's not unusual for him to spend a good chunk of time here. In previous years he stayed in Montenegro until 15th August (2012), 22nd August (2013), 8th August (2014) and 28th August (2015), so he may stay for a few more weeks yet. 
David still going strong - 08 Jul 2016
David spent a couple opf days in northern France before continuoing his journey south. His next stop saw him spend four days in the French Alps close to the Italian border. He left here on, or around 2 July, only to pop up on the other side of the Adriatic in Montenegro around midnight on 5 July, 1,046km (650 (miles) from his Alpine stopover. David is currently just to the north of Lake Scutari, an area he has visited on every migration south since he was fitted with his satellite tag in the spring of 2012.
David leaves Wales and crosses the Channel - 22 Jun 2016

During the early morning of 21 June we received a couple of locations from David's tag that showed he was on his way back to Africa. Despite having to dodge some pretty heavy rainfall, he headed down to the New Forest, Hampshire and probably left the UK via the Isle of Wight. He is currently in northern France just south west of Dreux, and 526km (326 miles) south east of his breeding site atTregaron.

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