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.
Spiros Pool – Grey Plover, 40+ Kentish Plover, 25+ Little Ringed Plover, 4 Ruff, 40+ Little Stint, Little Tern & Pallid Swift.
Larnaca Sewage Works – Ruddy Shelduck, 15+ Ferruginous Duck, Temmincks Stint, Green Sandpiper & 8 Common Sandpiper.
Kouklia Dam (Famagusta) – 7 Garganey, 8 Gadwall, 3 White headed Duck, 19 Black necked Grebe, Terek Sandpiper, 330+ Ruff, 270+ Wood Sandpiper, 90+ Little Stint, 2 Temmincks Stint, 15+ Little ringed Plover, 15+ Green Sandpiper, 7 Common Sandpiper, 2 Marsh Sandpiper, 4 Dunlin, 4 Curlew Sandpiper, 7 Common Greenshank, 3 Common Redshank, Spotted Redshank, 11 Collared Pratincole, 19 Whiskered Tern, 13 White winged Tern, 2 Black Tern, 3 Gull billed Tern
Vyzakia Dam, Nicosia – 3 Cyprus Wheatear, Eastern Olivaceous Warbler, 3 Cyprus Warbler, 9 Masked Shrike & 16 Cretzschmar’s Bunting.
Mia Milia Water Treatment Works – 2 Curlew Sandpiper, 2 Collared Pratincole, 2 Ruff, 3 Little Stint, 5 Wood Sandpiper, 12 Green Sandpiper, 8 Common Sandpiper, 7 Little Ringed Plover, Gull billed Tern & Western Yellow Wagtail.
Kouklia Dam (Famagusta) – 2 White headed Duck, 8 Garganey, Common Pochard, 40+ Red Crested Pochard, 21 Gadwall, 6 Black necked Grebe, 8 Eurasian Spoonbill, 2 Great White Egret, 5 Common Quail, 290+ Ruff, 260+ Wood Sandpiper, 60+ Little Stint, 20+ Green Sandpiper, 6 Common Sandpiper, 25+ Little ringed Plover, 2 Curlew Sandpiper, 4 Common Greenshank, Common Redshank, Dunlin, 2 Common Snipe, 6 White winged Tern, 7 Gull billed Tern & Peregrine Falcon.
Lazanias – 3 European Nightjar, Little Owl & 2 Cyprus Scops Owl.
Freshwater Lake South – 33 Red-crested Pochard, 9 Ferruginous Duck, 2 Great Crested Grebe, 46+ Glossy Ibis, 7 Black crowned Night Heron, 20+ Little Egret, 70+ Squacco Heron & 100+ Cattle Egret.
Kouklia Dam (Famagusta) – White headed Duck, 21 Garganey, 3 Common Pochard, 6 Northern Shoveler, 8 Gadwall, 30+ Red Crested Pochard, 8 Eurasian Spoonbill, 30 Greater Flamingo, 4 Great White Egret, 30+ Squacco Heron, 20+ Black crowned Night Heron, Purple Heron, 17 Black necked Grebe, 95+ Great Crested Grebe, 90+ Wood Sandpiper, 40+ Ruff, 20+ Little Stint, 20+ Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, 13 Little ringed Plover, 2 Collared Pratincole, Whiskered Tern, 3 White winged Tern, 2 Western Marsh Harrier & Peregrine Falcon.
Spiros Pool – 7 Glossy Ibis, 30+ Black-winged Stilt, 2 Grey Plover, 4 Common Ringed Plover, 3 Little Ringed Plover, 17 Spur-winged Lapwing, 8 Kentish Plover, Temminck’s Stint, 15 Little Stint, 9 Little Tern & 2 Common Tern.
Troodos Square – 10+ Pallid Swift, Masked Shrike & Red Crossbill.
Livadi tou Pashia – Eurasian Hoopoe, 4 Masked Shrike, 3 Eastern Olivaceous Warbler & 8+ Spotted Flycatcher.
Kouklia Dam (Famagusta) – 60+ Red Crested Pochard, 21 Northern Shoveler, 11 Gadwall, 4 Garganey, 4 Great White Egret, 8 Eurasian Spoonbill, 30+ Squacco Heron, 25+ Black crowned Night Heron, 2 Purple Heron, 37 Greater Flamingo, 110+ Glossy, 2 Black necked Grebe, 17 Green Sandpiper, 50+ Wood Sandpiper, 40+ Ruff, 20+ Little Stint, 2 White winged Tern & Western Yellow Wagtail.
Achna Dam – 4 Glossy Ibis, 6 Squacco Heron, 28 Black-winged Stilt, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 39 Spur-winged Lapwing, 2 Common Sandpiper, 6 Common Redshank, 8 Common Greenshank, 3 Temminck’s Stint, 2 Little Stint & 10 Collared Pratincole.
Kouklia Dam (Famagusta) – 11 Garganey, 17 Northern Shoveler, 8 Gadwall, 30+ Red-crested Pochard, 5 Black-necked Grebe, 50 Greater Flamingo, 40+ Glossy Ibis, 8 Eurasian Spoonbill, 40+ Black crowned Night Heron, Stone-curlew, 520+ Black-winged Stilt, 5 Common Ringed Plover, 7 Green Sandpiper, 8 Wood Sandpiper, Common Greenshank, 36 Ruff, 5 Little Stint, 3 Collared Pratincole, Gull-billed Tern & 4 Whiskered Tern.
Spiros Pool – Terek Sandpiper, 2 Curlew Sandpiper & Collared Pratincole.
Spiros Pool – Terek Sandpiper, Spotted Redshank, Common Greenshank, 2 Common Redshank, Temmincks stint, 30+ Little Stint, 6 Little Ringed plover, 25+ Kentish Plover, 2 Grey Plover, White winged Tern, Gull billed Tern & 12+ Little Tern.
Achna Dam – Temmincks Stint, Wood Sandpiper, 8 Common Greenshank, 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, Little Owl & 3 Common Hoopoe.
Kouklia Dam (Famagusta) – 10 Northern Shoveler, 55+ Red Crested Pochard, 95+ Ferruginous Duck, Garganey, Gadwall, 5 Common Teal, 40 Greater Flamingo, 8 Eurasian Spoonbill, 18 Wood Sandpiper, 9 Green Sandpiper, 6 Little Stint, 2 Ruff, 2 Gull billed Tern, Peregrine Falcon, 3 Western Marsh Harrier & 5 Spectacled Warbler.
Agioi Saranta – 6 Spectacled Warbler & Black-headed Bunting.
Agia Napa Sewage Works – 5 Spur-Winged Plover, 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, Long-Legged Buzzard & Eleonora’s Falcon.
Artemis Trail, Troodos – Cyprus Scops Owl, 2 Common Hoopoe, 15 Cyprus Wheatear, 2 Woodlark, 10 Pallid Swift, 10 Red-rumped Swallow, 8 Spotted Flycatcher, 8 Masked Shrike & 7 Red Crossbill.
Kouklia Dam (Famagusta) – 18 Red-crested Pochard, 30 Ferruginous Duck, 30+ Great Crested Grebe, 31 Greater Flamingo, 70 Glossy Ibis, 7 Eurasian Spoonbill, 16 Black crowned Night Heron, 12 Squacco Heron, 2 Great White Egret, 70 Black-winged Stilt, Wood Sandpiper, Collared Pratincole & 2 Western Marsh Harrier.
Larnaca Sewage Works – 3 Caspian Tern.
Spiros Pool – Grey Plover, Little Ringed Plover, 5 Common Redshank, Spotted Redshank, 2 Wood Sandpiper, 2 Little Gull & 6 Little Tern.
Larnaca Sewage Works – 12 Ferruginous Duck, Ruddy Shelduck, Red crested Pochard & Gull billed Tern.
Kouklia Dam (Famagusta) – 65+ Great Crested Grebe, 50+ Ferruginous Duck,
8 Eurasian Spoonbill, 15 Greater Flamingo, Great White Pelican, 3 Great White Egret, 45+ Glossy Ibis, Marsh Harrier, 5 Common Ringed Plover, Common Greenshank, 7 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, Whiskered Tern, 6 Little Owl & 5+ Long eared Owl.
Dipotamos Gorge, Kathikas – 3 Long-legged Buzzard, 2 Peregrine Falcon, 2 Eleonora’s Falcon, European Turtle Dove, European Roller, Blue Rock Thrush, 2 Red-rumped Swallow & Cretzschmar’s Bunting.
Larnaca Sewage Works – 4 Red crested Pochard, 8+ Ferruginous Duck, Eleonora’s Falcon, 8 Common Sandpiper & 2 Little Tern.
Spiros Pool – 3 Wood Sandpiper
Larnaca Sewage Works – Ruddy Shelduck.
Spiros Pool – 4 Little Gull.
Kionia – Peregrine Falcon, Cyprus Scops Owl, 2 Common Hoopoe, 16 Cyprus Wheatear, 2 Eurasian Crag Martin, 2 Masked Shrike & Cretzschmar’s Bunting.
Larnaca Sewage Works – Ruddy Shelduck, 3 Ferruginous Duck, Red crested Pochard, 5 Common Sandpiper and Audouins Gull.
Spiros Pool – Grey Plover, 30+ Black winged Stilt, 2 Ken
Germasogeia – 30+ Pallid Swift.
Famagusta Freshwater Lake South
30+ Red-crested Pochard, 25+ Ferruginous Duck, 2 Great Crested Grebe, 25+ Glossy Ibis, Little Bittern, 7 Black crowned Night Heron, 35+ Squacco Heron & 100+ Cattle Egret.
Kouklia Dam (Famagusta) – 11 Northern Shoveler, 5 Gadwall, Great White Pelican, 3 Eurasian Spoonbill, 2 Great White Egret, Little Bittern, 35+ Grey Heron, 110+ Black crowned Night Heron, 35+ Glossy Ibis, 14 Wood Sandpiper, 3 Common Sandpiper, 5 Green Sandpiper & 2+ Ruff.
Eptakomi cliffs – Peregrine Falcon, 2 Common Raven, 2 Blue rock Thrush, 35 Alpine swifts & 9 Red-rumped Swallow.
Limnatis – 32+ Griffon Vulture.
Troodos Botanic Gardens – 15+ Red rumped Swallow, 4 Eurasian Crag Martin, 2 Cyprus Wheatear, 2 Short toed Treecreeper & 2 Eurasian Jay.
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