Earth, wind and flyer: the moves of Disco Tony and friends

Disco Tony has travelled over 5,000 miles. He is grey with a yellow ring around his eyes. He is a cuckoo, but not just any cuckoo. He is one of a very special group of birds whose every move is being monitored. Toby's work will contribute towards a common understanding between ornithological researchers and development researchers about the way people and birds share landscapes - Bill Adams Earlier this year, Toby Smith followed the moves of Disco Tony and his fellow cuckoos - a journey that took him to the forests of Gabon in West Africa and the fringes of the Batéké Plateau grasslands. As a photojournalist - and first Leverhulme artist-in-residence at the University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute (UCCRI) - his aim was both to photograph the landscape and to talk to the local villagers and hunters with whom the cuckoos share their home. The result is a remarkable series of images that is providing bird researchers with a comprehensive idea of the rural landscapes in which the cuckoos overwinter.