My Cuckoo back home.

The latest bulletin from the BTO on my Cuckoo, JAC.

  JAC has become our third tagged bird to arrive back in the UK. New updates that came in at around 6am this morning show that JAC has flown the remaining 582 km (362 miles) from France back to his breeding grounds in North Wales. The most recent update showed that he was within a mile of his tagging location. So, if over the next few weeks you find yourself in the World's End area of Denbighshire, between Llangollen and Wrexham, be sure to listen out for a Cuckoo, it might just be JAC!

 

 

 The latest bulletin on my Cuckoo JAC, one of three moving north.

Leading this trio at the moment is Llangollen Cuckoo JAC. Updates received at around midnight showed him approximately 88 km (55 miles) off the coast of France, due west of the seaside town of Arcachon. A single lower-quality transmission received at 6am this morning suggests that JAC has flown a further 377 km (235 miles) north, completing his crossing of the Bay of Biscay. He was close to the commune of Treal in the Morbihan department of Brittany. We will have to await further updates to be certain of his new location.

My Cuckoo JAC nears home.

 

 

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After crossing the Sahara, JAC didn't hang around for long in Morocco. By yesterday afternoon he was on the move again, crossing the Mediterranean. At 19:00 last night he was close to Berja in Andalusia, southern Spain. He pressed on and by 21:55 last night he was in the Sierra de Baza mountains approximately 20 Km south west of the city of Baza in Granada.

My Cuckoo crosses the Sahara

 

 My Cuckoo, JAC,   has at last stopped wandering around West Africa and turned towards home. The latest bulletin from BTO:-

The big mover over recent days has been Llangollen Cuckoo JAC. After completing his crossing of the Sahara, JAC has spent the last 24 hours in northern Morocco. He is now approximately 15 km east of the city of Nador, on farmland close to the shores of the Mar Chica lagoon. He is hopefully enjoying some good feeding to prepare him well for the next leg of his migration when he will cross the Mediterranean and visit Spain and France.