Common cuckoo migration route
12 Common cuckoo tracks from animals tagged in Rybachy bird station, Russia. Pick one and press play to draw its route day by day.
As the dataset title says, this study moved some birds far away before release. That is why some tracks start far from Russia.
- Scientific name
- Cuculus canorus
- Tagged in
- Rybachy bird station, Russia
- Years recorded
- 2015 to 2020
- Animals on this page
- 12 (of 31 in the dataset, longest records first)
Drawing the map.
Records by animal
| Animal | Recorded | Days | Distance | Longest day | Countries |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PB143320 | 2016-08-22 ~ 2020-04-11 | 387 | 4,146 km | 3 km | 4: Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Saudi Arabia |
| PB143194 | 2015-09-19 ~ 2017-02-28 | 188 | 29,040 km | 138 km | 7: Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Namibia, Russia, Egypt, Sudan |
| PB143125 | 2015-08-11 ~ 2016-07-14 | 84 | 8,764 km | 96 km | 8: Russia, Syria, Eritrea, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| PB143327 | 2016-08-23 ~ 2017-11-16 | 62 | 2,341 km | 0 km | 3: Russia, Lithuania, Romania |
| PB143227 | 2015-08-21 ~ 2016-03-07 | 61 | 9,853 km | 5 km | 9: Russia, Hungary, Serbia, Greece, Sudan, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Zambia |
| PB143382 | 2017-08-17 ~ 2017-12-17 | 47 | 7,459 km | 162 km | 5: Russia, Poland, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Angola |
| PB143373 | 2017-08-18 ~ 2017-11-17 | 36 | 8,879 km | 514 km | 9: Russia, Poland, Romania, Albania, Egypt, Sudan, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola |
| PB143370 | 2017-08-17 ~ 2017-10-17 | 30 | 1,908 km | 347 km | 6: Lithuania, Russia, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece |
| PB143436 | 2018-09-05 ~ 2018-11-08 | 25 | 2,769 km | 0 km | 2: Russia, Turkey |
| PB143133 | 2015-08-11 ~ 2019-09-28 | 21 | 1,636 km | 1 km | 1: Russia |
| PB143375 | 2017-08-18 ~ 2017-10-01 | 21 | 2,201 km | 0 km | 4: Poland, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey |
| PB143155 | 2015-08-12 ~ 2015-09-29 | 20 | 1,533 km | 7 km | 1: Russia |
Distance adds up straight lines between one point per day. The real path was longer.
Countries are counted only where a daily point falls inside a border. Points at sea are not counted.
Red List status
We only show a status after a person has checked it on the IUCN site. Not checked yet.
Where this record comes from
Citation (as given)
Thorup K, Vega ML, Snell KRS, Lubkovskaia R, Willemoes M, Sjöberg S, Sokolov LV, Bulyuk V. 2020. Data from: Flying on their own wings: young and adult cuckoos respond similarly to long-distance displacement during migration. Movebank Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.5441/001/1.vk36vq82
License: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
Original data (DOI): doi:10.5441/001/1.vk36vq82
We reduced the original data to one point per day and removed points that jump away from the days around them.
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