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[Taz2]

I thought that this might get lost in the wildlife thread and I just think that it is interesting to see just how far these birds travel each year. Sadly only two have made it back - Martin and Clement didn't survive. http://www.bto.org/science/migration/tracking-studies/cuckoo-tracking

Taz x

[Pennyfarthing]

It's amazing Taz isn't it?  They set off from Norfolk (my county) and there was quite a lot on the local news.  ind you I'm always fascinated by Housemartens and swallows who fly similar distances I believe.

[CLKD]

Haven't heard our cuckoo yet and I was awake listening at 4.50 a.m.

[CLKD]

I heard the cuckoo 4 the 1st time last week whilst DH was fishing.  It cooked x 4 then a pause; then 36 times 

In our village this morning I heard one.  Not heard a female yet.

[CLKD]

A record-breaking cuckoo that completed more than 69,000 miles (111,045 km) during its lifetime has died.

PJ was fitted with a satellite tag in the King's Forest, Suffolk, in 2016, to track his migration to Africa.

He was the first satellite-tagged cuckoo to clock-up 60,000 miles since research began, the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) said.

The BTO said PJ was about seven years old and "was approaching the age of the oldest known UK cuckoo when he died".

The "star bird" that "captured the hearts and minds of the public" died at his Suffolk breeding ground, the organisation said.

[Ju Ju]

We hear a cuckoo here every year. Last week, while on holiday in Herefordshire, I was woken up by a very loud cuckoo! Very near.

[CLKD]

I've heard the males, but not the females. 

[Taz2]

Thanks for posting about PJ CLKD. I knew he had returned but not that he had since died. How sad but what a mileage he clocked up.

I've never heard a female cuckoo.

Taz x

[CLKD]

They have a kind of warble reply .........

[Taz2]

They have a kind of warble reply .........

I've heard them on sound recordings but never in real life. Very rare to hear one apparently.

[CLKD]

Unless one has the 'ear' for them.  I always wait to hear if there is a reply.  Same with tawny owls: he twits and she twoooos