Friday, 3 March 2023

My Cuckoo is on the move back to Wales.

 An update on my sposore Cuckoo JAC, received today from the BTO.

 

JAC reaches Guinea

Photo shows the head and upper body of handsome male Cuckoo, JAC. He is a silver/grey bird with an arresting yellow eye ring and orange iris around a black retina.

Llangollen Cuckoo JAC

Dear John,


Since our last update both JAC and Joe have made the first big moves of their spring migrations. Having spent the last few weeks in the rainforests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a new update received on 22 February showed that JAC had flown 1,915km (1,190 miles) west to Nigeria. A few days later he flew a further 1,390km (864 miles) west to his current location in south eastern Guinea. He is now approximately 200km south east of Cuckoo Ellis. In 2022 JAC stopped off in Ivory Coast from 27 Feb to 7 April when he embarked on his desert crossing, arriving back in the UK on 29 April.

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