The position out of cuckoos inwards the Great Britain has fallen drastically over the final few decades. The British Trust for Ornithology has been tracking the migrations of cuckoos inwards gild to discovery why. By satellite-tracking cuckoos the BTO is able to larn to a greater extent than nigh their migration routes together with their lives away from their breeding grounds inwards the UK. By identifying the areas of importance to these birds the BTO hopes to live on able to amend sympathise together with explicate the losses to the British Cuckoo.
In May 2011 v British Cuckoos were fitted amongst satellite-tags. The birds are called Larry, Peckham, PJ, Selborne together with Victor. You tin persuasion their migration routes for the final vii years on the BTO's Tracking Cuckoos to Africa ... And Back Again. An animated Google Map allows you lot to lookout adult man the bird's wing southward for the wintertime together with provide dorsum to the Great Britain inwards saltation for each of the vii years.
You tin notice 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 acquire out the Great Britain much before than previously thought. They wintertime inwards together with around the Congo rainforest. The birds truly solely pass nigh 15% of their fourth dimension inwards the UK. Important information has likewise been discovered nigh the birds' migration routes together with of import stop-over locations on these routes.
You mightiness likewise similar Where Do They Go?, National Geographic's wonderful map of the annual flying patterns of American plane species. You tin likewise notice many to a greater extent than posts on creature tracking on nether the animal tracking tag.
