Former Traveling Cache Cuckoo Cache TB (moving cache TB)

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Owner:
The Wombles Send Message to Owner Message this owner
Released:
Thursday, April 11, 2002
Origin:
United Kingdom
Recently Spotted:
In the hands of the owner.

This is not collectible.

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Current Goal

 

The goal for this travel bug is to meet new cachers, share a very unusual icon and spread happiness.  

This travel bug commemorates the Cuckoo cache which was a moving geocache archived by Groundspeak in 2017.

 

About This Item

 

In the beginning (of Geocaching), many innovative ideas became reality and travelling geocaches were one example of this. The Cuckoo cache was a moving geocache and could move from location to location to be found by cachers in different places. This travel bug travelled with the Cuckoo cache and recorded where it went.

The Cuckoo cache started its journey in April 2002 and it travelled around the world until it was archived by Groundspeak HQ in May 2017, when all remaining moving caches were archived (about 40 in total). 

During the life of the Cuckoo cache, it:

  • travelled 104,699 miles (168,498 Km)
  • was found 7,114 times
  • was awarded 1,501 favourite points
  • was #1 in a list of UK cache favourite points

This was the original TB number sent out with the Cuckoo cache to track it's whereabouts in 2002, hence it's impressive mileage.  It travelled all over Europe, North America (including Hawaii), New Zealand, Guam in the Pacific and many other places.  Eventually it returned to us and went to many Megas and even a Giga event in Germany.

The archived Cuckoo cache page can be found at this cache page where you can read the logs of people who enjoyed finding it.

When the Cuckoo cache was archived, HQ provided an icon which is unique only to TBs associated with moving caches. I find this icon to be highly appropriate.

 

In one respect the Cuckoo Cache will continue to travel.

 

 

 

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    Tracking History (104988.3mi) View Map

    Discovered It 11/14/2025 Tim'n'Marion discovered it   Visit Log

    Seen tb code while completing the lab cache.
    Discovered It 11/13/2025 osnapibaby discovered it   Visit Log

    Entdeckt in einem Listing.
    Vielen Dank.

    Discovered It 11/13/2025 Joshbee23 discovered it   Visit Log

    Hab's entdeckt.
    Dankeschön 😊
    Discovered It 11/13/2025 martini1999 discovered it   Visit Log

    Thanks for sharing this unique TB.

    Discovered It 10/24/2025 Phiby discovered it   Visit Log

    I was reminiscing a little while ago, looking at my old finds, and I stumbled across this trackable. I logged the cache back in 2014 at the very first GIGA in Munich.
    Discovered It 10/2/2025 mcbeath family discovered it   Visit Log

    Thanks for sharing...very privileged to learn about the cuckoo cache ...at Chippenham event
    Discovered It 10/2/2025 derekcache discovered it   Visit Log

    Discovered this at Chippenham memory lane Community event in Chippenham.

    Discovered It 8/27/2025 t.team discovered it   Visit Log

    entdeckt
    Discovered It 7/31/2025 TheDoctor12 discovered it   Visit Log

    Discovered while playing the M4 labs
    Discovered It 7/20/2025 Nordwanderer discovered it   Visit Log

    Just discovered the history of moving caches. Interesting. Thank you.
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