Tracking Cuckoos To Africa

The position out of cuckoos inward the United Kingdom of Great Britain together with Northern Ireland of Britain together with Northern Republic of Ireland has fallen drastically over the terminal few decades. The British Trust for Ornithology has been tracking the migrations of cuckoos inward social club to discovery why. By satellite-tracking cuckoos the BTO is able to acquire to a greater extent than most their migration routes together with their lives away from their breeding grounds inward the UK. By identifying the areas of importance to these birds the BTO hopes to travel able to ameliorate sympathise together with explicate the losses to the British Cuckoo.

In May 2011 v British Cuckoos were fitted alongside satellite-tags. The birds are called Larry, Peckham, PJ, Selborne together with Victor. You tin persuasion their migration routes for the terminal 7 years on the BTO's Tracking Cuckoos to Africa ... And Back Again. An animated Google Map allows y'all to spotter the bird's wing southward for the wintertime together with provide dorsum to the United Kingdom of Great Britain together with Northern Ireland of Britain together with Northern Republic of Ireland inward jump for each of the 7 years.

You tin abide by out what the scientists convey learnt past times tracking the cuckoos on What nosotros convey learnt together with then far. In summary it has been discovered that the birds tend to piece of job out the United Kingdom of Great Britain together with Northern Ireland of Britain together with Northern Republic of Ireland much before than previously thought. They wintertime inward together with approximately the Congo rainforest. The birds truly entirely pass most 15% of their fourth dimension inward the UK. Important information has too been discovered most the birds' migration routes together with of import stop-over locations on these routes.

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