Satellite-tracked cuckoo takes surprise route to Africa
"...instead of flying west around the Sahara Desert he was tracked 1,000km east on the Algerian coast, ten days earlier than his 2011 route....arrived in Algeria on August 1 and remained there for two days before setting off in the late afternoon of August 3....He headed south west, flying diagonally across the Sahara Desert and is currently in southern Mauritania..."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/19112879
"...instead of flying west around the Sahara Desert he was tracked 1,000km east on the Algerian coast, ten days earlier than his 2011 route....arrived in Algeria on August 1 and remained there for two days before setting off in the late afternoon of August 3....He headed south west, flying diagonally across the Sahara Desert and is currently in southern Mauritania..."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/19112879
