We haven't heard from Sherwood's tag for a couple of weeks. However, this isn't unusual when our Cuckoos are in dense forest. When we last heard from him his temperature was fine but the charge on his tag was low. Fingers crossed he will 'pop-up' soon, and it will be interesting to see where he is when he does.

Sherwood has begun his journey west. During the last week he crossed the border into Gabon and is currently 120 km (75 miles) west of his last location in Congo. He is still in dense rainforest and in the Minkebe National Park.

During the last few days Sherwood has moved north and east and has crossed the border into the Republic of the Congo. During this time he has travelled 145km (90 miles). He is just to the north of the Djoua River and the border with Gabon.

Sherwood has been in the dense rainforest to the south of Minkebe National Park, Gabon for a month now. We are receiving lots of locations from his tag that show he has been moving short distances within the immediate area.

We are receiving lots of locations from Sherwood's tag that show him settled in the area of rainforest to the south of Minkebe National Park, Gabon.

During the last week Sherwood has moved north and east within Gabon and is currently just to the south of Minkebe National Park, an area of dense rainforest. This latest flight has seen him cover 204km (127 miles).

During the last few days Sherwood's tag shows that he has moved another 115km (71 miles) further north. He is now on the northern edge of the Lope National Park, Gabon, in an area of fairly dense forest.

During the last few days we have recieved locations from Sherwood's tag that shows he didn't stay on the southern border of Gabon for very long. In the early hours of 5 January his tag showed that he had travelled 286km (178 miles) north and west and was in central Gabon just to the south of Fougamou and close to the Ngounie River. Around breakfast on 7 January we recieved a series of low quality locations from his tag that show he hasn't hung around and has flown a further 134km (83 miles) north. This won't show on his map until we receive higher quality locations. This movement has seen him fly 420km (260 miles). Sherwood is on his way back.

During the early evening of New Year's eve Sherwood was flying north. He is now less than 2km (just over a mile) from the southern border of Gabon and in the northeast corner of the Conkouati Reserve. Could this 70km (44 miles) movement be the first leg of his long journey back to Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire? The journey back to Sherwood Forest via West Africa is 8,000km (5,000 miles) as the Cuckoo flies.

Having not moved very far since arriving in the Congo rainforest around a month ago, over the weekend Sherwood flew 150km (95 miles) south and west. He is now in the Conkouati Reserve.

Since arriving in Congo Sherwood hasn't moved very far, although during the last few days he moved north and east by around 30km (20 miles). He is just on the northern edge of the Crystal Mountains and to the east of Kibangou.

On the 8 November we received a series of locations that showed Sherwood had moved out of Nigeria and that he was in the very northeast corner of Equatorial Guinea. Four days later he was in the Congo rainforest. During this time he has flown almost 1,500km (900 miles).

The last week has seen Sherwood move south and east out of Benin and into Nigeria. He is currently in an area of fairly open forest to the north of the town of Arimogija and 460km (286 miles) from his Benin stopover site.

It was beginning to look like Sherwood might never leave the beach in Senegal but on 29 September he began the journey east in earnest. In the last three weeks he has travelled through Senegal, Mali, the northern tip of Guinea, Burkina Faso, Ghana and Togo and onwards into Benin, a distance of 2,239km (1,391 miles). He is currently just tom the south of Tokou in an area of open country with scattered small trees, and the temperature is around 31 degrees C in light south-easterly winds, perfect conditions for an onward flight.

Sherwood is still using an area of dunes and trees behind the beach just to the north of Dakar in Senegal. The data we are getting from his tag suggests that all is still well with him, so it will be interesting to see when he decides to move east.

Sherwood is still in Senegal, having been here since 6 August, but during the last few days he has moved a little further west and is now frequenting the coastal scrub behind the beach to the north of the capital Dakar and to the south of the fishing viallge of Kayar. He is now the last of our tagged Cuckoos to stopover in Senegal this year.

During the evening of 5 August Sherwood was crossing the Sahara and was in the Akchar Desert, to the west of the Richat Structure, also known as the eye of the Sahara. The terrain here is barren and the daytime temperature is currently around 40 degrees. The winds are fairly strong in this part of the desert right now and are coming from the east. This will cause Sherwood to drift to the west. If successful in his crossing, he may well join Thomas and Lambert in Senegal. 

Having left northern France and crossed the Pyrenees into Spain only three days ago, Sherwood has kept going. His map currently shows him crossing the Straits of Gibraltar but we have received a few more recent locations that show he is now in Morocco, to the south of Tangier.

Having spent the last three weeks in northern France Sherwood is finally on his way south. On 21 July we recieved a series of locations from his tag that showed he had crossed the Pyrenees and was in Spain. He is just to the west of Olmedillas and around 100km (60 miles) northeast of Madrid.

Having headed south from Gaillon, north of Paris, Sherwood reached as far south as Riberac, 450km (278 miles) south, before turning northeast and then north and flying another 255km (158 miles). Having flown over 700km (400 miles) he is only 288km (179 miles) from Gaillon. Presumably this u-turn is a response to conditions further south, although the weather looks OK.

Having spent a bit of time around the Hayling Island area in Hampshire, Sherwood is now in northern France and is moving around pockets of woodland on the banks of the Seine, close to Gaillon.

Sherwood is poised to cross the English Channel. During the evening of 12 June, we received locations from his tag that showed he had left Sherwood Forest and was on the south coast, just north of Hayling Island. The next time we hear from him he may well be our fifth Cuckoo in France.

Tagged in Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire, Sherwood is now on the south coast at Chichester Harbour, 269km (167 miles) south of his tagging site. He might not stay here long but we won't hear from his tag again until Thursday afternoon - will he have crossed the English Channel?

Since being tagged on 18 May, Sherwood has remained in the forest of his name, initially in the area south of Budby. Recent locations from his tag show that he is still in this general area.