2025 was a year of significant progress for BirdLife Cyprus, marked by

Elegant, distinctive, and unmistakably pink, the Greater Flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus) is one of

Every year, hundreds of millions of birds die around the world from

We are in the process of collecting photographs for our 2026 BirdLife

Birds don’t sing just to fill our mornings with their lovely sounds.

Since 1950, we have seen the disappearance of six breeding species from our island: the Black Vulture, Lesser Kestrel, Marbled Duck, Black-bellied Sandgrouse, Dipper and, as recently as the 1980s, the Eastern Imperial Eagle. Six species may not sound like a big number to have lost over seven decades, but in ‘normal’ times, with background rates of extinction, it is probably fair to say that a person born in Cyprus in 1950 should only have witnessed one such loss over a lifetime.

This is an edited version of a piece by our Director, Martin
Hellicar, which was first published in the Cyprus Mail on
7/9/2022.

BirdLife Cyprus in collaboration with Kuşkor (Turkish Cypriot conservation organization) are organizing

To some people’s surprise, our cities are home to many a different bird species: from resident birds, such as Great Tits, Goldfinches, Greenfinches, Sardinian Warblers and Kestrels to migratory species, such as White Wagtails, Barn Swallows and Swifts – even Cyprus Wheatears!