John Carter
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54 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 22 Jul
John Carter’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We'd never seen a bird do this before.
So it's a really unusual movement.
Now, he's currently in northern Germany, where he will continue to move.
So at the time that we're doing this, he's definitely, rather appropriately, the most northern of all our cuckoos.
So, I mean, not only was he ringed in the far north, he's also the furthest north at the moment.
At this stage, we don't really know
beans gone that way because we've had so few birds that do that but we've tagged relatively few Scottish birds so at this stage it's maybe something that quite a few Scottish birds do and we haven't seen it that regularly so it might be a particular route that particular birds do which is why
they are surviving much stronger than the birds that maybe go through the Iberian Peninsula.
They're the ones that have the higher fatality rate as opposed to the ones that go eastward.
So it may be connected to that, or it may just be a one-off.
It may just be an odd bird that have fancied doing that.
You know, sometimes weather as well will play a part into some of this, but most of the birds do tend to stick to fairly rigorous routes once they've established that.
They'll follow similar routes year on year.
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