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.
For a personalized and expertly guided birdwatching experience, explore our bird tours here.
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.
Mia Mia Water Treatment plant – Black Kite, 2 Green Sandpiper, Wood Sandpiper, 8+ Water Pipit & Eastern Yellow Wagtail.
Kouklia Dam (Famagusta) – 16 White fronted Geese, 84 Eurasian Wigeon, 122 Gadwall, 28 Northern Pintail, 33 Ferruginous Duck, 23 Common Pochard, 562 Greater Flamingo, 6 Black necked Grebe, 10+ Marsh Harrier, Hen Harrier, 35 Eurasian Golden Plover, 30+ Calandra Lark & Barn Swallow.
Clapsides – Pied Kingfisher & Barn Swallow.
Akrotiri Marsh – Bonelli’s Eagle, White throated Kingfisher, Pallid Swift, 3+ Little Swift, 16 House Martin & 4 Barn Swallow.
Akrotiri Gravel Pits – Great spotted Cuckoo
Kalo Chorio Orinis – 2 Cyprus Scops Owl.
Germasogeia – Northern Goshawk, 2 Eurasian Crag Martin & 5 House Martin.
Bishop’s Pool – 2 Humes Warbler.
Germasogeia Dam – Bonelli’s Eagle, Long legged Buzzard, Pied Avocet & 2 Eurasian Crag Martin.
Troodos Botanical Garden – 14 Eurasian Siskin.
Akrotiri Marsh – 35 Gadwall, 2 Wigeon, 12 Common Snipe, Ruff, Green Sandpiper, Common Greenshank, White throated Kingfisher, 10+ Water Pipit, 8 House Martin, 3 Barn Swallow, 2 Moustached Warbler & Penduline Tit.
Mazotos – 2 Great spotted Cuckoo.
Bishop’s Pool – 5 Ferruginous Duck, Moustached Warbler & 2 Hume’s Warbler.
Cape Pyla – Finsch’s Wheatear.
Freshwater Lake South – White headed Duck.
Akrotiri Marsh – Ruddy shelduck & White throated Kingfisher.
Psematismenos – Cyprus Warbler.
Tersefanou – Hen Harrier
Paphos Headland – Desert Finch.
Akrotiri Marsh – 20 Great white Egret.
Troodos Botanical Garden – 15 Eurasian Siskin.
Bishop’s Pool – 2 Hume’s Warbler.
Akrotiri Marsh – 25 Gadwall, 2 Eurasian Wigeon, 3 Great spotted Cuckoo, 20+ Water Pipit, Siberian Pipit & 2 Little Swift.
Kensington Cliffs – 20 Eurasian Griffon Vulture.
Lady’s Mile – 31 Great white Egret, 31 Greater Flamingo, Pied Avocet, Mediterranean Gull, Caspian Gull & 3 Armenian Gull.
Bishop’s Pool – 10 Ferruginous Duck, Common Swift, Barn Swallow & Hume’s Warbler.
Akrotiri Marsh – Ruddy Shelduck, 2 Eurasian Wigeon, White throated Kingfisher, 7 Woodlark, Siberian Pipit, 4 Red throated Pipit, Common Swift, 6 Little Swift & Reed Bunting.
Paphos Archaeological park – Isabelline Wheatear.
Akrotiri Marsh – 10 Northern Pintail, 10 Gadwall, Hen Harrier, Ruff, Common Grenshamk, 5 Common Redshank, 4 Spotted Redshank, Green Sandpiper, White throated Kingfisher, 8 Little Swift, Siberian Pipit, 20+ Water Pipit & 3 Reed Bunting.
Alaminos – Siberian Pipit.
Akrotiri Bay – 2 Little Gull & 2 Sandwich Tern.
Akrotiri Bay – 2 Little Gull & 2 Sandwich Tern.
Akrotiri Bay – 2 Little Gull & 2 Sandwich Tern.
Alaminos – Kentish Plover, 3+ Bluethroat & 2 Red fronted Serin.
Lady’s Mile – Pied Avocet.
Mia Milia Water Treatment Plant – Eastern Yellow Wagtail.
Cape Greco – Pallid Harrier.
Alaminos – Common Buzzard, 3 Sandwich Tern, 3 Red fronted Serin & 40 European Serin.
Akrotiri Marsh 3 Little Swift & Barn Swallow.
Paphos Sewage Plant – Pallid Harrier.
Paralimni Lake – 1,675 Greater Flamingo, 1,097 Northern Shoveler, 1,244 Common Teal, 117 Gadwall, 21 Eurasian Wigeon, 5 Marsh Harrier, 2 Black winged Stilt & 2 Pied Avocet.
Episkopi – 5 Griffon Vulture.
Asprokremmos Dam – 3 Greater white fronted Geese, 3 Gadwall, Common Pochard & Great crested Grebe.
Mia Milia Water Treatment Plant – 35 Gadwall, 5 Eurasian Wigeon, 10 Ferruginous Duck, 3 Common Pochard, Black necked Grebe, 2 Glossy Ibis, 552 Northern Lapwing, 2 Green Sandpiper, 5 Wood Sandpiper, Spotted Redshank, Ruff, 9 Water Pipit, 6 Bluethroat & Eastern Yellow Wagtail.
Larnaca Salt Lake – 15 Black-winged Stilt, 13 Ringed Plover, 82+ Kentish Plover, 37 Common Redshank, 4 Temminck’s Stint, 42+ Dunlin, 67+ Little Stint, Audouin’s Gull,
180+ Caspian Gull, 30+ Armenian Gull, 3 Baltic Gull, 3 Heuglin’s Gull & Reed Bunting.
Oroklini Marsh – 3 Northern Pintail, 8 Gadwall, 27 Northern Lapwing, 9 Black-winged Stilt, 5 Water Pipit, 5 Barn Swallow, Bluethroat & Moustached Warbler.
Cape Greco – Masked Shrike.
Agia Paraskevi pond – 2 Gadwall, Western Water Rail, Western Marsh Harrier & Common Buzzard.
Germasogeia – 2 Bonelli’s Eagle, 3 Long legged Buzzard, Common Buzzard, 2 Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Peregrine & 3 Eurasian Crag Martin.
Evretou Dam – 2 Great crested Grebe & 2 Eurasian Crag Martin.
Paphos Headland – 100 Eurasian Golden Plover, Grey Plover, Greater Sandplover, 2 Little Gull & Desert Finch.
Alaminos – Bluethroat & 15+ Red fronted Serin.
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