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 shard through our Twitter feed here and through our WhatsApp group. Please click here to request to join the group.
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.
Akrotiri Water Tower- 12 European Honey Buzzard, 22 Marsh Harrier, 2 Black Kite, Montagu’s Harrier, Eleonora’s Falcon, 2+ Greater Short-toed Larks & Lesser grey Shrike.
Oroklini Marsh – White Stork & 8 Pied Avocet.
Larnaca Airport Coast – Grey Plover, Kentish Plover, Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper & Dunlin.
Larnaca Sewage Works – 21 Ferruginous duck, 89 Greater Flamingo, 2 Montagu’s Harrier, Marsh Harrier, Ruddy Turnstone & 3 Dunlin.
Agia Varvara – 6 Purple Heron, Green Sandpiper, Whinchat, Great Reed Warbler, 3 Red backed Shrike, 2 Masked Shrike & Cretzschmars Bunting.
Bishop’s Pool – 8 European Honey Buzzard, 7 Marsh harrier, Peregrine, 50+ European Turtle dove, 2 Common Kingfisher & 2 Spotted Flycatcher & Grey wagtail.
Akrotiri Marsh – Little Bittern, Demoiselle Crane, Osprey, Montagu’s Harrier, 3 Marsh Harrier, 5 Bonelli’s Eagle, 20+ Yellow Wagtail & Great Reed Warbler.
Phasouri bee-hives – Bonelli’s Eagle, 4 Marsh Harrier, Black Kite, Eurasian Hobby, 5+ Eleonora’s Falcon, Little Swift, 8+ Pallid Swift.
Polis Chrysochous Bay – 60+ Garganey, 35 Little Egret, 4 Black-crowned Night Heron, 109 Purple Heron, 44 Grey Heron, Marsh Harrier, 22 Stone Curlew, Green Sandpiper, Yellow Wagtail & Tree Pipit.
Falsi – Androlikou
Eastern Black eared Wheatear, Isabelline Wheatear, 2 Cyprus Wheatear, 4 Whinchat, 8 Willow Warbler, 6 Spotted Flycatcher, 3 Lesser grey Shrike, 5 Red backed Shrike & Masked Shrike.
Oroklini Marsh – 8 Pied Avocet, 3 Curlew Sandpiper, 2 Marsh Sandpiper, 2 Wood Sandpiper, Common Snipe & White winged Tern.
Polis Chrysochous Bay – 1500+ Garganey, 10 Northern Shoveler, 151 Glossy Ibis, 28 Black-tailed Godwit, Red Knot & 2 Whimbrel.
Phasouri Bee-hives – Bonelli’s Eagle, Little Swift, Alpine Swift & 8 Pallid Swift.
Akrotiri Marsh – Pallid Harrier, White throated Kingfisher, 120+ European Bee eater, Eurasian Golden Oriole, 50+ Yellow Wagtail, Citrine Wagtail, Tree Pipit, Whinchat & 2 Lesser Grey Shrike.
Kouklia Wetlands, Famagusta – 4 Cream Coloured Courser.
Oroklini Marsh – 7 Pied Avocet, 2 Temmincks Stint, Curlew Sandpiper & Citrine Wagtail.
Polis Chrysochous Bay – 500+ Garganey, 3 Northern Shoveler, 10 Grey Heron, 5 Purple Heron & 76 Cattle Egret.
Cape Greco – Montagu’s Harrier, 2 Audouin’s Gull, 40+ European Bee eater, 10+ Cyprus Wheatear, 4 Isabelline Wheatear, Blue Rock Thrush, 15+ Eastern Olivaceous Warbler, Cretzschmar’s Bunting & 8 Ortolan Bunting.
Agia Vavara – Purple Heron, Garganey, 2 Wood Sandpiper, 10+ Yellow Wagtail, Citrine Wagtail, Great Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler, 5 Red Backed Shrike, 4 Lesser Grey and 3 Masked Shrikes.
Polis Chrysochous Bay -2000+ Garganey, 209 Purple Heron, 27 Grey Heron, 46 Glossy Ibis, Montagu’s Harrier, 10 Avocet, 3 Ringed Plover, 28 Common Sandpiper, Wood Sandpiper, 2 Baltic Gull, 39 Gull billed Tern, 2 Black Tern, 3 White winged Tern, 4 Common Tern, 2 Hoopoe, Northern Wheatear, Tree Pipit, Lesser grey Shrike & Red backed Shrike.
Akhna Dam – 6 Temminck’s Stint, 4 Marsh Sandpiper, Curlew Sandpiper, Collared Pratincole, 2 Gull-billed Tern, White-winged Tern, 50+ Yellow Wagtail, 5+ Eastern Olivacious Warbler & 20+ Willow Warbler.
Akrotiri Marsh – 12 Greater Flamingo, 2+ Little Bittern, European Roller, Isabelline Wheatear, Red backed Shrike & Lesser grey Shrike.
Achna Dam – Black-winged Kite.
Famagusta Freshwater Lake – 64 Ferruginous Duck, Common Pochard, Water Rail, 10 Great Crested Grebe,, 54 Night Heron, 57 Squacco Heron, 2 Armenian Gull Gull-billed Tern & Whiskered Tern.
Larnaca Desalination Plant fields – Pallid Harrier, 2 Montagu’s Harrier, 2 Marsh Harrier, 3 Collared Pratincole, 2 Masked Shrike & 4 Red-backed Shrike.
Larnaca Sewage Works – 30 Garganey, 22 Ferruginous Duck, 2 Black-necked Grebe, 31 Greater Flamingo, 8 Black-winged Stilt, Eurasian Curlew, Ruddy Turnstone, Knot, Temminck’s Stint, Sanderling, 17 Little Stint, 3 Gull-billed Tern, 13 White-winged Black Tern & Slender-billed Gull.
Agia Varvara – 5 Demoiselle Crane, 2 Bonelli’s Eagle, 2 Long legged Buzzard, Great Reed Warbler & Masked Shrike.
Tala – 30 Demoiselle Crane.
Athalassa Dam – 14 Black-crowned Night Heron, 11 Squacco Heron, 58 Cattle Egret, 28 Grey Heron & 11 Purple Heron
Agios Minas, Neohorio – Collared Flycatcher, Barred Warbler, 5+ Cretzschmars Bunting, 2 Willow Warbler, Blackcap & Masked Shrike.
Kouklia, Famagusta – 2 Common Hoopoe, 7 Isabelline Wheatear, 4 Greater Short toed Lark, 3 Eastern Olivaceous Warbler, 3 Spotted Flycatcher & 3 Red backed Shrike.
Achna Dam – 4 Black-winged Stilt, 8 Ringed Plover, Little Ringed Plover, Wood Sandpiper, Greenshank, 4 Ruff, 2 Temminck’s Stint, 2 Masked Shrike, 2 Lesser Grey Shrike & 5 Red-backed Shrike.
Bishops Pool – 4 Ferruginous Duck, 7 Black-crowned Night Heron, Black Kite, 3 Eleonora’s Falcon, Whiskered Tern, Common Kingfisher, Lesser grey Shrike & Masked Shrike.
Phassouri Bee-hives – Eleonora’s Falcon, Little Swift & 10+ Pallid Swift.
Akrotiri Gravel Pits – 2 Eleonora’s Falcon, 2 Kentish Plover, 2 Ringed Plover, 7 Little Stint, 2 Curlew Sandpiper & 2 Green Sandpiper.
Akrotiri Marsh – Citrine Wagtail & 50+ Yellow Wagtail.
Evrichou – 54 Demoiselle Crane.
Polis Chrysochous Bay – 726 Garganey, 105 Demoiselle Crane, 42 Pied Avocet, Grey Plover, 3 Whimbrel, Caspian Tern, Common Tern & Citrine Wagtail.
Bishop’s Pool – Osprey & 100+ Black Kite.
Achna Dam – Black winged Kite.
Oroklini Marsh – 16 Pied Avocet.
Polis Chrysochous Bay – 1000+ Garganey, 23 Purple Heron, 20 Ringed Plover, 6 Black winged Stilt, 40 Common Sandpiper, 21 Yellow Wagtail & 20+ Red rumped Swallow.
Larnaca Sewage Works – Pied Avocet, Sanderling, Gull billed Tern & White winged Tern
Akrotiri Marsh – 2 Little Bittern, 3 Water Rail, Bonelli’s Eagle & White throated Kingfisher.
Polis Chrysochous Bay – 67+ Garganey, 26 Purple Heron, 5 Grey Heron, 141 Glossy Ibis, 2 Eleonora’s Falcon, 22 Ringed Plover, 10 Baltic Gull, Caspian Gull, 9 White winged Tern, 30 Gull billed Tern & 3 Common Kingfisher.
Agia Varvara – Glossy Ibis, Common Buzzard, 3 Stone Curlew, Common Kingfisher, 5 Yellow Wagtail & 3 Masked Shrike.
Stavrovouni – Bonelli’s Eagle & 4 Eleonoras Falcon.
Polis Chrysochous Bay – 62 Garganey, 126 Glossy Ibis, 7 Little Bittern, 37 Little Egret, 267 Purple Heron, 5 Scopolis Shearwater & Common Kingfisher.
Akrotiri Gravel Pits – 2 Garganey, 2 Greater Sandplover, 23 Kentish Plover, 2 Sanderling, Common Greenshank & Little Stint.
Polis Chrysochous Bay – 62 Garganey, 126 Glossy Ibis, 7 Little Bittern, 37 Little Egret, 267 Purple Heron, 5 Scopolis Shearwater & Common Kingfisher.
Akrotiri Gravel Pits – 2 Garganey, 2 Greater Sandplover, 23 Kentish Plover, 2 Sanderling, Common Greenshank & Little Stint.
Akamas- 94 Demoiselle Crane.
Cape Greco – 21 Cyprus Wheatear, 7 Isabelline Wheatear, Citrine Wagtail, Eastern Orphean Warbler, 5 Cyprus Warbler, 8 Spectacled Warbler, Spotted Flycatcher & 2 Red backed Shrike.
Oroklini Marsh – Garganey, Red crested Pochard, Ferruginous Duck, 60 Greater Flamingo, 3 Little Bittern, 5 Black winged Stilt, 8 Little Stint, Ruff, Marsh Sandpiper, Common Redshank & 2 Wood Sandpiper.
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