Scottish Cuckoos BB and Livingstone, along with East Anglian Cuckoo, Derek, will be spending Christmas in Congo, along with Tor who is further south (and closer to Chance and Ken in Gabon). BB is currently just a little further north from the position in which he was in at this time last year. It's been really fascinating watching how some of the timings of movements have been so in sync with previous years' data and we hope to continue to collect sequential year's data to look at how environmental conditions influence timings and the sites which are used.
Livingstone returns to previous location
- 09 Dec 2013
Livingstone has returned to the area he was in during October and early November, leaving eastern Congo and returning to the Cuvette-Ouest region to the west.
Livingstone heads north
- 25 Nov 2013
Over a series of days, Livingstone has travelled 415km (260 miles) north-east, leaving his position in the Teke Plateau and heading to northern Congo. Signals received today show that he is close to the border with the Central African Republic in the Noubale-Ndoki National Park.
Scottish Cuckoos in wintering grounds?
- 12 Nov 2013
Of the Cuckoos tagged in Scotland this year, Livingstone is still on the edge of the Téké Plateau, whilst Patch is in an area of closed canopy forest with seasonally flooded grassland west of Lac Mai in DRC. Waller is in the swamp forests about 120km (75 miles) ESE of Chris and Derek. All three of these birds could be in their final mid-winter locations, although we might well see Waller at least move further south towards the gallery forest / savannah mosaics.
Livingstone moves to Gabon
- 07 Nov 2013
By 1 November, Livingstone had moved north-west from his position in Congo to eastern Gabon, just inside it's border with Congo.
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