Recent sightings
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Recent Sightings
Below are all recent, unconfirmed reports of notable bird sightings from all over Cyprus, sent to us from local and visiting birdwatchers.
Recent sightings are also shared through our Twitter feed here and through our WhatsApp groups: please click here to request to join the Cyprus Bird Sightings group, and here to request to join the Cyprus bird socials group, for bird and conservation related discussions beyond sightings.
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Are you out birdwatching regularly? Then make your sightings count by sending them to the BirdLife Cyprus Recorder. You can see all the ways you can record your sightings here.
Paphos Sewage Plant – Richard’s Pipit.
Kensington Cliffs – 14 Griffon Vulture.
Larnaca Sewage Works – 13 Garganey, 3 Northern Shoveler, 3 Ferruginous Duck, Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Greenshank, Ruddy Turnstone, Curlew Sandpiper, 50+ Ruff, Sanderling, 2 Collared Pratincole, 6 White winged Tern, 2 Pallid Swift, 4 Sand Martin, 60+ Western Yellow Wagtail, Whinchat & Savi’s Warbler.
Paphos Headland – Pallas’s Gull.
Mandria – 3+ Bimaculated Lark & 3 Calandra Lark.
Phasouri Bee-hives – Bonelli’s Eagle, 4 Western Marsh Harrier, 3+ Eleonora’s Falcon, 120+ European Bee eater, 250+ Alpine Swift, 2 Common Swift & 10 Pallid Swift.
Pissouri – 11 Demoiselle Crane.
Akrotiri Salt Lake – 31 Demoiselle Crane & Crested Honey Buzzard.
Akrotiri Marsh – 4 Little Bittern, Bonelli’s Eagle, 200+ European Bee eater, 14 Common Hoopoe, 7 European Turtle Dove, 2 Little Swift, 40+ Pallid Swift, 5+ Alpine Swift, 8 Sand Martin, Citrine Wagtail, 30+ Western Yellow Wagtail, Sedge Warbler & 3 Red backed Shrike.
Akrotiri Shipwreck – 70+ Kentish Plover, Sanderling & Dunlin.
Marathounta – 50 Demoiselle Crane.
Larnaca Sewage Works – 3 Savi’s Warbler.
Pomos – 89 Garganey, 46 Purple Heron, 17 Glossy Ibis, 3 Little Egret, 4 Scopoli’s Shearwater, Yelkouan Shearwater, 40+ Ruff, 21 Black tailed Godwit, Common Greenshank, Heuglin’s Gull, 2 Caspian Tern, 2 Common Hoopoe & Common Kingfisher.
Polis Chrysochou – 50 Alpine Swift.
Akrotiri Marsh – 2 Little Bittern & Booted Eagle.
Pomos – 94 Garganey, 36 Purple Heron, 82 Glossy Ibis, 17 Little Egret, 5 Cattle Egret, 2 Yelkouan Shearwater, Common Ringed Plover, Little Ringed Plover, 4 Slender-billed Gull, European Honey Buzzard, 2 Western Marsh Harrier, Eurasian Hobby, European Turtle Dove, Pallid Swift & 6 Red rumped Swallow.
Mammari – Ortolan Bunting, Lesser Grey Shrike, Red-backed Shrike & Masked Shrike.
Akrotiri Marsh – 4 Little Bittern, 2 Western Water Rail, European Honey Buzzard, Montagu’s Harrier, 2 White Throated Kingfisher, 30+ European Bee eater, 14 European Turtle Dove, 10+ Red rumped Swallow & 2 Great Reed Warbler.
Akrotiri Water Tower – 43 Demoiselle Crane.
Pomos – 121 Garganey, 62 Purple Heron, 35 Glossy Ibis, 4 Yelkouan Shearwater, Scopoli’s Shearwater, 11 European Honey Buzzard, 6 Western Marsh Harrier, Common Hoopoe, 3 Pallid Swift, 8 Red rumped Swallow, 2 Grey Wagtail, Western Yellow Wagtail & Common Chaffinch.
Oroklini Marsh – 4 Red crested Pochard, 7 Ferruginous Duck, 133 Cattle Egret, 28 Glossy Ibis, Squacco Heron, 2 Little ringed Plover & Common Swift.
Paphos – 40+ Demoiselle Crane.
Tala – Demoiselle Crane (heard).
Pomos – 718+ Garganey, Ferruginous Duck, Northern Shoveler, 27 Demoiselle
Crane, 263 Purple Heron, Grey Heron, 8 Squacco Heron, 268 Glossy Ibis, 21 Little Egret, Cattle Egret, Scopoli’s Shearwater, 3 Little ringed Plover, Red Knot, Ruddy Turnstone, Baltic Gull, 13 Gull billed Tern, Western Marsh Harrier, Western Yellow Wagtail & 2 Willow Warbler.
Cape Greco – 13 Glossy Ibis, 10 European Honey Buzzard, Whinchat, 2 Willow Warbler, 2 Common Whitethroat, Lesser Whitethroat, Barred Warbler, 4 Lesser Grey Shrike & Masked Shrike.
Akrotiri Water Tower – 500 European Honey Buzzard & Pallid Harrier.
Pomos – 71 Purple Heron, Grey Heron, 7 Little Egret, 228 Glossy Ibis, 360+ Garganey, 13 Gull billed Tern, Eleonora’s Falcon & Common Hoopoe.
Cape Greco – 54 Demoiselle Crane, -3 Purple Heron, 2 European honey Buzzard, 4 Black Kite, 2 Red backed Shrike & Lesser grey Shrike.
Larnaca Desalination plant fields – Wood Sandpiper, Temmincks Stint, Collared pratincole, 12 Western Yellow Wagtail & Citrine Wagtail.
Larnaca Sewage Works – 12 Garganey, 2 Red crested Pochard, 5 Ferruginous Duck, Common Greenshank, 30+ Ruff 4 Whiskered Tern, White winged Tern, 2 Red rumped Swallow, Isabelline Wheatear & 12 Western Yellow Wagtail.
Meneou Beach – 5 Ruddy Turnstone.
Pomos – 1,210+ Garganey, 6+ Scopoli’s Shearwater, 2 Yelkouan Shearwater, 100+ Ruff, 10 Black tailed Godwit, Common Redshank, Eurasian Curlew, Baltic Gull, European Honey Buzzard, Common Hoopoe, 2 Common Swift & Lesser Whitethroat.
Cape Greco – 17 European Honey Buzzard, Western Marsh Harrier, 41 European Bee Eater, Common Hoopoe, 3 Pallid Swift, 4 Eastern Orphean Warbler, 10 Willow Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Eastern Olivaceous Warbler, 2 Spotted Flycatcher, 3 Masked Shrike & 2 Ortolan Bunting.
Oroklini Marsh – Spotted Redshank, 29 Spur Winged Lapwing, 2 Wood Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, 4 Little Stint, Sanderling, 4 Little Ringed Plover, 5 Common Ringed Plover & Red necked Phalarope.
Polis – 50+ Alpine Swift & Common Hoopoe.
Mia Milia Sewage Works – 100+ Northern Shoveler, 430+ Cattle Egret, 10 Ruff, 18 Little Stint, Temmincks Stint, Curlew Sandpiper, 3 Whiskered Tern, 50+ Western Yellow Wagtail & 2 Citrine Wagtail
Agios Sozomenos – 17 Ferruginous Duck, Green Sandpiper, Long legged Buzzard, European Roller, European Bee eater, Common Hoopoe, Red backed Shrike & Lesser grey Shrike.
Pomos – 249 Purple Heron, 8 Grey Heron, 188 Glossy Ibis, 3 Scopoli’s Shearwater, Sooty Shearwater, 3 Common Sandpiper & Western Yellow Wagtail.
Spiros pool – Greater Sandplover, Broad billed Sandpiper, Marsh Sandpiper, Sanderling, Ruddy Turnstone, 9 Common Ringed Plover, 3 Temmincks Stint, 2 Dunlin & 2 Curlew Sandpiper.
Larnaca Desalination Plant fields – Eurasian Sparrowhawk, 2+ Great Reed Warbler, Citrine Wagtail & Red backed Shrike.
Artemis Trail, Troodos – 4 Griffon Vulture, 2 Eurasian Sparrowhawk, 6 Purple Heron, 3 Common Hoopoe, 8 European Bee eater, 7 Alpine Swift, 10 Pallid Swift, 4 Red-rumped Swallow, 9 Willow Warbler, Eurasian Blackcap, 14 Spotted Flycatcher & 6 Red Crossbill.
Latchi – 104 Demoiselle Crane.
Agia Marina (Chrysochou Bay) – 74 Glossy Ibis, 2 Baltic Gull, European Turtle Dove & Grey Wagtail.
Pomos – 35+ Garganey, Western Marsh Harrier, Common Hoopoe & 2 Western Yellow Wagtail.
Agia Marina (Chrysochou Bay) – 50+ Garganey, 7 Glossy Ibis, 7 Common Little Bittern, Common Sandpiper, Baltic Gull & Eleonora’s Falcon.
Mavrokolympos Dam – 102 Demoiselle Crane.
Akrotiri – 50 Demoiselle Crane.
Goudi – 100 Demoiselle Crane.
Larnaca Desalination Plant fields – 13 Glossy Ibis, Squacco Heron, 2 Wood Sandpiper, 8 Pallid Swift, 3 Sand Martin & Savi’s Warbler.
Larnaca Sewage Works – 2 Northern Shoveler, 9 Ferruginous Duck, Black necked Grebe, 4 Greater Flamingo, 3 Purple Heron, 26 Black winged Stilt, Little Ringed Plover, Black tailed Godwit, Ruddy Turnstone, 3 Ruff, Sanderling, 12 Little Stint, 8 Collared Pratincole & Gull billed Tern.
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