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Cuckoo Migration, a theory 2021

Posted on 17 February 2021 by Richard Nissen

In January 2021 I had the opportunity to have another test of my theory that migratory animals (fledgling cuckoos) use an innate sense of direction to find their way to their destination. I did a zoom presentation to some of … Continue reading →

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Posted on 30 May 2017 by Richard Nissen

Intro This site takes you into the world where technology is trying to understand animal migration by using tags and a sophisticated satellite system to follow routes taken by animals.  Up until now tags have often been very heavy, or … Continue reading →

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How young cuckoos find their winter grounds

Posted on 18 March 2017 by Richard Nissen

Please find this interesting link to important work on Cuckoos done by Kasper Thorup and his team in Denmark. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0168940 They were able to tag and therefore track fledgling cuckoos.  This work is very important as the major question for … Continue reading →

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Cuckoo Migration

Posted on 26 September 2016 by Richard Nissen

Cuckoo Migration is one of the great mysteries and to date there is still no agreement on how Cuckoos find their way to the Congo for the winter starting from different locations in Europe.   The team at Copenhagen University … Continue reading →

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Universal Consciousness

Posted on 27 April 2015 by Richard Nissen

On 30th March 2015, Richard Silberstein gave a presentation to the Science Medical Network on “Universal Consciousness”: Mystics of various religious and spiritual traditions have, on occasion, described a mystical realisation as that of the entire universe’s conscious. In this talk, he described some … Continue reading →

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Cuckoos – BTO satellite

Posted on 26 March 2015 by Richard Nissen

For those of us following the BTO satellite tagged Cuckoos, we can see Spring is well on its way – three birds have already left their winter locations in the Congo rainforest and are at their stopover sites in West Africa. Later … Continue reading →

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Chris the Cuckoo running later than ever

Posted on 14 August 2014 by Richard Nissen

In previous years, Chris has been one of the first tagged Cuckoos to cross the Sahara desert but this year he seems to be on a much more relaxed schedule. His previous arrival dates south, of the Sahara desert, were … Continue reading →

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