Birding Italy Net - Great Spotted Cuckoo, new breeding species in the Po Delta, NE Italy

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Great Spotted Cuckoo, new breeding species in the Po Delta, NE Italy

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The first Great Spotted Cuckoo (Clamator glandarius) nest was found recently in a pine wood by Massimiliano Costa near Ravenna, the Po Delta, NE Italy. This species was previously irregular in the area, very scarcely found. This is probably the most northerly breeding site in the world. In Europe, the species is regularly breeding in Turkey, Greece, Portugal, Spain, S France and Italy, where is most likely to be found breeding in Tuscany and Latium, along the Thyrrenian sea coast.

15:15 - Saturday, June 23, 2007 - post comment

GS Cuckoo breeding range
In "birdingitaly" it was written thus (re. GS Cuckoo breeding range) : "This is probably the most northerly breeding site in the world."
GS Cuckoo is an annual visitor to the region further north than the Po Delta (Friuli Venezia Giulia), especially along the coast between the mouth of the rivers Isonzo and Tagliamento. Breeding was suspected in the area of Campoformido (west of Udine) in the 1970s and 1980s (Roberto Parodi, pers. comm.) and proved in 2006 in the Magredi north of Pordenone (c.100km north of the Po) when Mauro Caldana found at least 3 young fledged from two different nests not far from Vivaro. - Paul Tout

Anonymous - 19:22 - Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Great Spotted Cuckoo
This year, in South France, there is many more GSC than other years.
In South-East France, the northenmost breeding pair is N44°12 (so not so far than your data). Best regards
Amine Flitti
Anonymous - 10:05 - Friday, August 3, 2007

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