10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2011

Tiny satellite tracking tags allowed scientists from the British Trust for Ornithology to track five cuckoos on their 5,000 km migration to Africa. One cuckoo is lagging slightly behind the rest and has made it as far as Morocco. One cuckoo is lagging slightly behind the rest and has made it as far as Morocco.

Burkina Faso 157

Burkina Faso Africa Chad Morocco 157

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2024

That’s why the current trend to radio-tag birds reveals so much more than ringing, though it is of course vastly more expensive. Rings are not the only way of marking birds, and with a number of species wing tags are more often used. When I photographed the Red Kite ( above ) near my home in Suffolk I hadn’t noticed its wing tags.

Lithuania 130

Lithuania Morocco Iceland Ireland 130

10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2012

All the inhabited continents except Africa have experienced bird extinctions; however the 2012 update of the IUCN Red List shows a startling, but not altogether unexpected, trend in that more and more of our bird species are facing extinction.

Endangered Species 200

Endangered Species Species South Africa Morocco 200