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Cuckoo - Cuckoo
Topic Started: Jul 28 2011, 09:57 PM (99 Views)
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Not sure how many ornithologists are on this forum like.

But Cuckoos ?

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The Cuckoo

The Cuckoo comes in April
She sings her song in May
She changes her tune
In the month of June
And July she flies away


It's been a mystery for years where and how they arrive, cause domestic upheaval and clear off without paying maintenance or claiming responsibility.

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I was about 9 or 10 when I saw my first cuckoo, it was in flight and still singing.
I was amazed because I'd always thought they were smaller birds (used to be an egg collector like in my earlier delinquent stage - not proud of it).

The cuckoo is halfway between a dove and a pigeon. fairly large for the nests that they usurp.

Anyway. The Independent newspaper is doing a blog on some tagged Cuckoos, and are tracking them. They have now got sattelite tags on them, rather than being ringed.


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Not so cuckoo after all: birds that blog their flight paths
The migration routes of some endangered visitors are being laid bare on the web (including the one that's been left behind in Norfolk)

By Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor


Full Introductory article.
The concise (tabloid size) version of the Independant also carries the articles.
20 pence even. Called the "i"
But a lot of bleeeding cricket in there :o

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/n...hs-2306287.html

There is a link in that article but it don't work like :angry:

This is the last flight plan - one Cuckoo is still hanginmg around in East Anglie, one has just reached the Northern Sahara before it attempts to cross it. Some go through Spain and over to Africa, others go via Germany - Italy - Egypt.

This map is slightly out-of date.(A few days)

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To me this is staggering, wonderful and beautiful.

:applause:
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so in aroundabout way carson & co are cuckoo ?
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