{"id":521846,"date":"2026-04-09T17:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/521846\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T17:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:47:09","slug":"worlingham-cuckoo-breaks-record-after-2000-mile-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/521846\/","title":{"rendered":"Worlingham cuckoo breaks record after 2000 mile journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Ashok, was tagged by the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) at Worlingham Marshes nature reserve in June last year.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  His migration back to the county is the earliest spring arrival in BTO&#8217;s history.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\" alt=\"Ashok was the first of the pair to get to Africa.\"\/>Ashok is now a record holder. (Image: Suffolk Wildlife Trust)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  After leaving last year, Ashok made his way across central Europe and the Sahara desert, before spending time in the forests of central Gabon, more then 2,000 miles from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eadt.co.uk\/news\/25302134.worlingham-cuckoos-makes-2000-mile-journey-africa\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Suffolk nature reserve.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Then in early March, he began his journey home, flying through Cameroon, across the Sahara and into north-eastern Algeria.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  At the end of March he had made his way across the Mediterranean and into south-east Spain, before arriving in Suffolk this week.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>He was tagged at the same time as Arthur. (Image: Suffolk Wildlife Trust)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ashok was tagged at the same time as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eadt.co.uk\/news\/25273348.cuckoos-tagged-satellite-trackers-worlingham-marshes\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Arthur,<\/a> who&#8217;s last known location was in the very south of Spain.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The BTO has tagged more than 130 cuckoos around the UK to track there journeys.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A spokesman for the Suffolk Wildlife Trust said: &#8220;We have lost more than a third of breeding cuckoos across the UK since 1995 and researchers from the BTO are trying to understand what may be causing these sharp declines.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Dr Chris Hewson, lead scientists on the project said: &#8220;Hopefully, we can ensure that future generations will continue to be delighted by the distinctive sound of the Cuckoo.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  You can continue following Ashok&#8217;s, Arthur&#8217;s and the other cuckoo&#8217;s journey on the BTO&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ashok, was tagged by the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) at Worlingham Marshes nature reserve in June last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-521846","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}