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| My Cuckoo JAC. |
The cuckoo's journeys back to the UK can start anytime from early January to early March and the first leg typically takes them up to a few hundred km north from their wintering grounds in the Congo Basin. They then move west through west Africa with some moving as far west as Liberia and Guinea. This stop off in west Africa during the spring migration is a very important time for our Cuckoos, a time when they must find good feeding opportunities which will allow them to lay down fat deposits which will fuel the next leg of their journeys across the Sahara Desert. Five Cuckoos remain from the 12 tagged birds that set off from the UK this summer. My Llangollen Cuckoo JAC is 430km west of Joe and Ellis and just over the border in the Republic of Congo. JAC is currently at the edge of a forested area close to the town of Gamboma in the Plateaux region of central Republic of Congo.
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