{"id":530478,"date":"2026-04-14T15:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/530478\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T15:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:17:10","slug":"cuckoo-takes-one-look-at-suffolk-after-migration-and-flees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/530478\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuckoo takes one look at Suffolk after migration and flees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A cuckoo, believed to be one of the first to have migrated back to the UK since the winter, has changed its mind and returned to mainland Europe. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ashok the male cuckoo was electronically tagged by the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) at Worlingham Marshes near Beccles, Suffolk, in May last year, so he could be tracked and monitored during his migration. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The birds migrate to Africa for the winter months, and Ashok slowly began to make his way back last month before touching down in Suffolk on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But according to Jon Carter, from BTO, Ashok spent 36 hours in the county before quickly changing his mind and heading to France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A cuckoo, believed to be one of the first to have migrated back to the UK since the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-530478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530478","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=530478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}